John Reddie

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(1805–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish lawyer remembered as a colonial judge.

Life

He was born in Glasgow on 6 May 1805 the son of James Reddie (1773-1852), an advocate, and his wife Charlotte Marion Campbell. He was one of seven children, including Major General George Burd Reddie. The family lived at 7 Frederick Street. He studied law at the University of Edinburgh and passed the Scottish bar as an advocate in 1826. In 1827 he was elected a Fellow of the

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, his proposer was Sir Henry Wellwood-Moncrieff. In 1830 he was working in Edinburgh as an

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and living at 6 Dundas Street in the city's

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. In 1836 he was made Chief Justice of St Lucia in the West Indies. Around 1840 he moved to India as First Judge of the Small Claims Court. He died in Calcutta on 28 November 1851,The Gentleman's Magazine vol 37, 1852 probably of

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. He is buried in the

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References

1805 births 1851 deaths Lawyers from Glasgow Alumni of the University of Edinburgh British colonial judges in the Americas Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 19th-century Scottish lawyers British India judges {{Scotland-law-bio-stub