Joseph Arnould

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Sir Joseph Arnould (12 November 1813 – 16 February 1886)[1] was a writer and British judge in India.

Life

Born at

Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay in 1859, whereas he was created a Knight Bachelor.[3] In 1862, as the Bombay High Court was inaugurated, he became one of its first judges.[4] Arnould presided in the 1862 Maharaj Libel Case[5] and the 1866 Aga Khan case[6] and retired three years later in 1869.[1]

A close friend of the poet Robert Browning, he won himself the Newdigate Prize, awarded by the University of Oxford in 1834.[7] During his time with the Middle Temple, Arnould befriended also and shared rooms with Alfred Domett.[8] In January 1841, he married Maria, daughter of H. G. Ridgway. She died in 1859 and Arnould married a second time in the following year.[1] Arnould lived at White Cross House in Winterbrook, near Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). During his retirement, he moved to Italy and died at Florence on 16 November 1886.[2]

The Arnould Scholarship at the

University of Bombay was named in his honour.[2]

Family

He was married twice: first, in 1841, to Maria, eldest daughter of H. G. Ridgeway; and, secondly, in 1860, to Ann Pitcairn, daughter of Major Carnegie, C.B.[9]

Works

  • Law of Marine Insurance (1848)
  • The Judgement in the Khoja Case (1866)
  • Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman, Formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1873)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Frederic G. Kenyon, ed. (1906). Robert Browning and Alfred Domett. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 21–27.
  2. ^
    ISBN 1-58477-323-5
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  3. ^ a b c Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 93.
  4. ^ "Bombay High Court, Official Website - Judges". Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  5. S2CID 143251675
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  6. ISBN 0-521-00310-5
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  7. ISBN 0-415-13451-X
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  8. ISBN 0-631-19916-0
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  9. ^ Rae 1901.
Attribution

Wikisource This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rae, William Fraser (1901). "Arnould, Joseph". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

External links

  • Hutchinson, John (1902). "Arnould, Sir Joseph" . A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices (1 ed.). Canterbury: the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. p. 6.
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