Affichage de 6106 résultats

Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange (November 30, 1756 – July 16, 1841) was, from 1789 to 1797, the sixth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He became the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Madras and in that capacity was also the first Chief Justice of the Madras Presidency, British India from 1801 to 1817.

Thomas Lumisden Strange (1808–1884) was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange. He was educated at Westminster School, and on leaving in 1823 went out to his father in India, becoming a writer in the East India Company's civil service at Madras in 1825. Strange was appointed an assistant-judge and joint criminal judge in 1831, became sub-judge at Calicut in 1843 and civil and sessions judge at Tellicherry in 1845. He was a special commissioner for investigating the Molpah disturbances in Malabar in 1852, and for inquiring into the system of judicature in the presidency of Madras in 1859, and was made judge of the high court of judicature in 1862. Strange resigned on 2 May 1863. He died at Norwood on 4 September 1884.