Dictionary of Indian Biography/Compton, Sir Herbert Abingdon Draper
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COMPTON, SIR HERBERT ABINGDON DRAPER (1770–1846)
Son of Walter Abingdon Compton : entered the E.I. Co.'s Army as a private soldier : went to India : bought himself out of the Army : articled himself in an office in Madras : returned home, and wrote for newspapers in London : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1808 : joined the Madras bar, and became Advocate-General there, and at Calcutta : was knighted and made Chief Justice of the Bombay Supreme Court, April 11, 1831: retired in 1839, and died Jan. 14, 1846.