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Date transcribed2011-01-01
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surname  Chambers    
First Name(s)  Sir Robert    
Year of Birth  1737    
Year of Death  1803    
Entry  Son of Robert Chambers, of Newcastle : born 1737. educated there and at Lincoln College, Oxford (Exhibitioner) : Fellow of University College, 1761 ; M.A., 1761; B.C.L., 1765 ; Vinerian Professor of Law, 1762-77 : Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, in 1766. In 1744 he joined the Calcutta Supreme Court as second Judge, Sir Elijah Impey being Chief : knighted in 1778 : lived for several years in a garden-house, at Bhawanipur : he became Chief Justice in 1791 : retired in 1799 : declined a peerage : died in Paris, May 9, 1803 : a monument by Nollekens is in the Temple Church, where he was buried. He was a friend of Dr. Johnson from 1766, and of Sir Philip Francis in Calcutta. He was one of the Judges on the trial of Nuncomar for forgery, when the latter was convicted, and hanged on Aug. 5, 1775. Chambers left some legal writings, and a collection of Sanskrit MSS.     
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