Sir Robert Henry Blosset ( Peckwell; 26 June 1776 – 1 February 1823) was an English lawyer who was briefly
Chief Justice of Bengal.
In 1811, he adopted his mother's surname.
Early life
He was the son of Revd
Henry Peckwell (1747–1787), a Methodist preacher, and his wife, Isabella Blosset (died 1816).
Career
He was educated at
Westminster School
(God Gives the Increase)
, established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560
, type = Public school Independent day and boarding school
, religion = Church of England
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and
Christ Church, Oxford, where he earned a BA in 1796 and an MA in 1799. He entered
Lincoln's Inn in 1795 to study law, was
called to the Bar in 1801 and made a
Serjeant-at-Law
A Serjeant-at-Law (SL), commonly known simply as a Serjeant, was a member of an order of barristers at the English and Irish Bar. The position of Serjeant-at-Law (''servientes ad legem''), or Sergeant-Counter, was centuries old; there are wri ...
in 1809. He was Deputy Recorder of Cambridge and counsel on the Norfolk circuit.
In 1821 he was appointed
Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Judicature of Bengal at
Fort William, Calcutta and received the customary knighthood in 1822. He died in Calcutta (now Kolkata) on 1 February 1823, at the age of 46, within a few months of taking up his judicial duties there.
He was buried at
St John's Church, Calcutta. He had never married and left his estate to his married sister, Selina Mary Grote.
He was the author of ''Cases on Controverted Elections in the Second Parliament of the United Kingdom (1805–1806).''
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1776 births
1823 deaths
People educated at Westminster School, London
Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford
Members of Lincoln's Inn
Serjeants-at-law (England)
British India judges
Knights Bachelor
Lawyers awarded knighthoods