Sir John Edward Power Wallis (3 November 1861 – 8 June 1946) was a British lawyer who served as the

Advocate-General of Madras The Advocate-General of Madras was charged with advising the Government of the British administered Madras Presidency on legal matters. The Presidency existed from 1652 to 1950. Prior to 1858, when it was administered by the East India Company, t ...

from 1900 to 1906, and Chief Justice of the

Madras High Court The Madras High Court is a High Court in India. It has appellate jurisdiction over the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is located in Chennai, and is the third oldest high court of India after the Calcutta High C ...

from 1914 to 1921.

Early life and education

Wallis was born in 1861, son of John Edward Wallis, of Alexandria, Egypt, formerly of London and the Inner Temple, Judge in the Mixed Tribunals (International Court of Justice), Cairo and sometime editor and proprietor of Catholic weekly '' The Tablet''. He was educated at

Ushaw College Ushaw College (formally St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw), is a former Roman Catholic Church, Catholic seminary near the village of Ushaw Moor, County Durham, England, which is now a heritage and cultural tourist attraction. The college is known for ...

, Durham, and the University of London (M.A.), and was called to the bar in 1886 from the Middle Temple. He served for some time as a reader in Madras before being appointed the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency in January 1900, succeeding C. A. White.

Legal career

Wallis served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency from 1900 to 1906. He was also nominated to the Madras Legislative Council and served as an ex-officio member from 1904 to 1906. In 1907, Wallis was appointed judge of the

and officiated as Chief Justice from July to October 1914. In November 1914, his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court was confirmed, and he served as such until 1921. On 19 August 1926, he was appointed to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He was a Fellow of All Souls, Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of Madras University in 1908. In 1903, he married Dorothea Margaret, daughter of William Richardson Fowke.''Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the Landed Gentry'', 1914, pg 2578

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References

* * http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary_(1915)/Wallis,_Sir_John_Edward_Power

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