William George Broome (18 March 1910 - 1988) was a British-Indian civil servant and judge. He was an

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officer of the 1932 batch.

Education

He was educated at

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. He continued his further studies at

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. Finally, he joined the Indian Civil Service on 10.10.1932.

Life

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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), in 1937, with whom he raised a family, he eventually renounced his British citizenship in 1958 and became an Indian citizen with the personal intervention of Prime Minister

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, himself a former barrister who regarded Broome as a distinguished jurist and as "much as Indian as anybody can be who is not born in India". Upon his retirement on 18 March 1972 from the

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as its seniormost

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, Broome was the last former ICS officer of European origin serving in India. He died in Bangalore in 1988.

Family

He had a son Ashok Broome and three daughters- Maya Nair, Lakshmi Seth and Indira Chaudhary .

Career

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. He heard the early hearings of the landmark Indian court case, State of Uttar Pradesh v. Raj Narain.

Allahabad High Court

He was appointed Additional Judge of Allahabad High Court on 08.12.1958. He was then made the permanent Judge of Allahabad High Court on 18.2.1959.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Broome, William 1910 births 1988 deaths Civil servants from London Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge