Dictionary of Indian Biography/Chambers, Sir Charles Harcourt
CHAMBERS, SIR CHARLES HARCOURT (1789–1828)
Born Aug. 31, 1789 : nephew of Sir Robert Chambers, (1737–1803), C.J. Bengal (1789–99): educated at Cambridge, Fellow of Trinity College : B.A., 1809 : M.A., 1814 : practised at the bar at the Mayor's Court, Chester, and elsewhere : in 1823 appointed a Puisne Judge of the new Supreme Court, Bombay, opened May 8, 1824 : knighted by Geo. III : the Supreme Court, while he was judge, passed severe strictures on the arbitrary proceedings of the executive officers of the E. I. Co., including the magistracy and the police : the Civil Government defied the Court's authority and instructed the Company's officers not to assist the Court's officials : the Court refused to register a stringent Regulation of the Bombay Government against the liberty of the Press : on the death of the Chief Justice, Sir E. West, on Aug. 13, 1828, Chambers acted as C.J., and continued opposing the Government : Lord Ellenborough, as President of the Board of Control, supported the Executive : Chambers, still in opposition, died Oct. 13, 1828, leaving Sir "Grant, Sir John Peter," in Dictionary of Indian Biography, by C. E. Buckland, London: Swan Sonnenschein (1906) (q.v.) alone : buried in the Cathedral, Bombay : he wrote, in England, on legal subjects.