Dictionary of Indian Biography/Awdry, Sir John Wither

by Charles Edward Buckland

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AWDRY, SIR JOHN WITHER (1795–1878)

Born 1795: educated at Winchester and Christ Church, Oxford: Fellow of Oriel: called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1822: after being Puisne Judge of the Bombay Supreme Court, from 1830, was Chief Justice, 1839–42: knighted 1830: D.C.L. of Oxford, 1844: one of the Commissioners of Oxford University: died June, 1878.