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George Lowndes

George Lowndes

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Sir George Rivers Lowndes, KCSI, KC, PC (1862–1943), was a lawyer and judge in British India, who served as Advocate-General of Bombay and Minister of Law as Law Member of the Viceregal Executive Council, during which time he chaired the select committee tasked in with the general revision of the Indian criminal code.[1]

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Lowndes was the son of Reverend Richard Lowndes Vicar of Sturminster & his wife Ann Harriet née Kaye. He married Hilda Julia Forbes on the 3rd of Sept. 1896 at Sturminster, Dorset. Their eldest son Richard Forbes Lowndes was killed aged 19 on the 14th Nov 1916 at the Somme, France.[2]

He practised before the High Court of Bombay.[3] Upon his return to the United Kingdom, he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 1929, at that time the court of last resort for the British Empire.[4] He retired from the Judicial Committee in 1934, being replaced by Sir Lancelot Sanderson, a former Chief Justice of the High Court of Calcutta.

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  1. [1]
    Assembly, India Legislature Legislative (1988). Glimpses of Colonial India and the Then Parliament. Election Archives. ISBN 978-81-7051-036-9.
  2. [2]
    "The London Gazette: Page 139" (PDF). No. 34012. London Gazette. 5 January 1934. p. 139.
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    "Bombay High Court". Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  4. [4]
    "The London Gazette: Page 1567" (PDF). No. 33474. London Gazette. 5 March 1929. p. 1567.


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