A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Awdry, Sir John Wither

3602249A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices — Awdry, Sir John WitherJohn Hutchinson

AWDRY, Sir JOHN WITHER.
Indian Judge.
1795—1878.

Admitted 11 November, 1817.

Eldest son of John Awdry, of the Middle Temple and of Notton House, Wilts. He was educated at Winchester and Oxford, where he graduated in 1818. He was called to the Bar 22 Nov. 1822. In 1830 he was made a Judge in Bombay and knighted, and in 1839 raised to the Chief Justiceship. He retired three years later and became a Magistrate and Chairman of Quarter Sessions in Wiltshire. The University of Oxford conferred on him the honorary degree of D.C.L. in 1844. He died at Notton House, 31 May, 1878.