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William Broome (civil servant)

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He served in Uttar Pradesh as Assistant Magistrate and Collector. He then became District and Session Judge on 16.4.1941. He was also appointed as Registrar of Allahabad High Court in December, 1943. He was confirmed as District and Sessions Judge on 13 September 1945.
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Justice William Broome (ICS 1932), a district and sessions judge at the time of Independence in 1947, remained in Indian government service as a judge. Having married an Indian, Swarup Kumari Gaur (the daughter of
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He was appointed Additional Judge of Allahabad High Court on 8 December 1958. He was then made the permanent Judge of Allahabad High Court on 18 February 1959.
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officer of the 1932 batch. He had the distinction of being the last British-born judge to serve in India.
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He had a son Ashok Broome and three daughters- Maya Nair, Lakshmi Seth and Indira Chaudhary .
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He heard the early hearings of the landmark Indian court case,
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William Henry Broome
London
Bangalore
Indian Civil Service
Latymer Upper School
Hammersmith
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Hari Singh Gour
Jawaharlal Nehru
Allahabad High Court
puisne judge
State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain



"Hon'ble Mr. William Broome"
"The man who stayed on: a brief life of Justice William Broome | BarNews"


"The story of the Englishman who stayed back as a judge in India (and what it tells us about Nehru)"
"THE BRITISH INDIAN JUDGE WHO SACKED INDIRA GANDHI"
Allahabad High Court
Categories
1910 births
1988 deaths
Civil servants from London
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Indian Civil Service (British India) officers
People educated at Latymer Upper School
Judges of the Allahabad High Court

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