William Markby
British judge (1829–1914)
Sir William Markby, KCIE (31 May 1829 – 15 October 1914) was an English judge and legal writer.
Career
Markby was born on 31 May 1829, the fourth son of the Rev. William Henry Markby, Rector of Duxford in Cambridgeshire. He was educated at Bury St. Edmunds and from 1846 at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his degree in Mathematics 1850. He was called to the bar in 1850 (or 1853?), and in 1865 he became recorder of Buckingham. In 1866, Markby went to India as judge of the Calcutta High Court. This post he held for twelve years. He also became the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calcutta. On his retirement in 1878, he was knighted and appointed as Reader in Indian Law at Oxford University, a post he held until 1900.
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