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'''Sir John Wither Awdry''' [[Deputy Lieutenant|DL]] (21 October 1795 – 31 May 1878)<ref name = Catalogue/> was an English-born Indian judge.<br />
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Born at Swindon, he was the second and oldest surviving son of John Awdry and his wife Jane, the second daughter of Lovelace Bigg.<ref name = Dod>{{cite book | last = Dod | first = Robert P. | title = The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland | date = 1860 | publisher = Whitaker and Co. | location = London | pages = 98 }}</ref> Awdry was educated at [[Westminster School]] and then at [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref name = Catalogue/> He was first in classics in 1816 and graduated with a [[Master of Arts (Oxbridge and Dublin)|Master of Arts]] ten years later. In 1844, Awdry received a [[Doctorate of Civil Law]] by the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name = Dod/><br />
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Awdry was called to the bar by the [[Middle Temple]] in 1822 and became a bencher in 1830, on whose occasion he was created a [[Knight Bachelor]].<ref name = Dod/> He was [[puisne judge]] and commissioner of the Insolvent Debtor's Court in [[Bombay]].<ref name = Dod/> In 1839, he was appointed chief justice of the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay]], resigning from this post after three years.<ref name = Dod/> After his return to England, Awdry served as chairman of the [[Quarter Sessions]] in [[Wiltshire]] and represented the county as [[Deputy Lieutenant]] from 1852.<ref name = Catalogue/><br />
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On 29 June 1830, he married firstly Sarah Maria, eldest daughter of Jonathan Awdry, and had by her two sons and a daughter.<ref name = Burke>{{cite book | last = Burke | first = John | editor = Sir Bernard Burke | title = A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland | publisher = Harrison | location = London | volume = vol. I | date = 1862 | pages = 39 }}</ref> After her death, he married Frances Ellen, second daughter of [[Thomas Carr (bishop)|Thomas Carr]] on 24 July 1839.<ref name = Burke/> By his second wife, he had eight sons and four daughters.<ref name = Burke/> Awdry died at his home at [[Notton House]].<ref name = Catalogue>{{cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = John | title = A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars | publisher = The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd | ISBN = 1-58477-323-5 | date = 2003 | pages = 9 }}</ref> His sons included [[William Awdry|William]], an Anglican bishop,<ref>{{cite book | last = Ion | first = A. Hamilton | title = The Cross and the Rising Sun: The British Protestant Missionary Movement in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, 1865-1945 | ISBN = 0-88920-218-4 | publisher = Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press | date = 1993 | pages = 16 }}</ref> and [[Charles Awdry|Charles]], senior partner of [[W. H. Smith]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yongeletters.com/people?person=80|title=Charles Awdry (1847-1912)|work=Letters of Charlotte Mary Yonge|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027063558/http://www.yongeletters.com/people?person=80|archivedate=2015-10-27|df=}}</ref> He was the paternal grandfather of the writer and clergyman [[Wilbert Awdry]].<br />
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