NEW CHIEF JUSTICE
APPOINTMENT TO INDIA SIR M. GWYER SAILS (Received September 16', 6.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. Sept. 15 Sir Maurice Gwyer, first Chief' Justice of India, under the new India Constitution, left London for India to-day to assume his appointment. Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer, prior to his appointment as Chief Justice of India last December, had been First Parliamentary Counsel to the Treasury since 1934. He was born in April, 1878, and was educated at Oxford, becoming a barrister-at-law at the Inner Temple in 1902. For a time he was a lecturer in a law subject at Oxford and in 1917 ho became the legal adviser to the
Ministry of Shipping. Two years later he was given a similar post to the Ministry of Health. Sir Maurice was Procurator-General and Solicitor to the Treasury in 1926-33 and in 1930 was the first British delegate to the Hague Conference on the Codification of International Law. In 1932 he gained a considerable insight into conditions in India when he became a member of the Indian States Inquiry Committee. Ha was created K.C.B. in 1928 and K.C.S.I. in 1935.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22836, 17 September 1937, Page 11
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