Dictionary of Indian Biography/Comyn, Sir Robert Buckley

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COMYN, SIR ROBERT BUCKLEY (1792–1853)

Son of the Rev. Thomas Comyn : born Oct. 26, 1792 : educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Oxford : called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1814 : appointed a Puisne Judge of the Calcutta Supreme Court in 1825 : knighted : Chief Justice of Madras from July I, 1835, until March 11, 1842 : D.C.L. Oxford : Bencher of the Middle Temple : died May 23, 1853. He wrote on legal and historical subjects.