Men-at-the-Bar/Elsmie, George Robert

by Joseph Foster

Elsmie, George Robert, Bengal C.S., judge of the chief court of the Punjab since 1882, acting judge 1878-82, matric. Marischal Coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen, educated at Haileybury, entered Bengal civil service 1857, successively assistant commissioner, deputy commissioner, and commissioner in the Punjab, a student of Lincoln's Inn 19 April, 1869 (then aged 30), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1871 (only son of George Elsmie, Esq., late of Southampton, dec.); born 31 Oct., 1838; married , 1861, Elizabeth, dau. of late Thomas Spears, Esq.

Lahore, India; 73, Eaton Rise, Ealing, W.; East India United Service Club.