Sir Charles Arthur Roe (24 September 1841 – 28 January 1927) was a British

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in India who was Chief Justice of the

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between the years 1895 and 1898. He was born in

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, England to John Banister Roe and his wife, Mary Anne Allies. He was educated at Lancing in

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followed by

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, where he was Boden Sanskrit scholar in 1863. He took up a post with the

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in Bengal in 1862. He was appointed Assistant Commissioner of the Punjab in 1863, Deputy Commissioner in 1878 and Additional Commissioner in 1883. A series of judicial appointments followed culminating in his appointment as Chief Justice of the

in 1895. He was also appointed Vice-Chancellor of the

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, Lahore. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of Frederick Gaskell. They had at least four sons and one daughter. His son, Francis Reginald Roe (1862–1942), was a judge of the

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, while another son, Arthur Robert Montgomery Roe (1882–1914) was killed in the First World War while serving with the Dorsetshire Regiment. His daughter Frances Mary Elizabeth Roe (1866–1965) married Sir James Douie. Roe was

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in 1897. He died of heart failure in

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, aged 85.

References

*https://archive.org/stream/registerofsnicho00lancuoft#page/50/mode/2up *https://web.archive.org/web/20101124125824/http://lhc.gov.pk/judges/former_chief_justices.php

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Roe, Charles Arthur 1841 births 1927 deaths Alumni of Merton College, Oxford People educated at Lancing College Indian Civil Service (British India) officers Knights Bachelor Chief Justices of the Lahore High Court British India judges Vice-Chancellors of the University of the Punjab