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| name = Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier<br />
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| office = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Patna High Court|1st Chief Justice]] of [[Patna High Court]]<br />
| term_start = 1 March 1916<br />
| term_end = 30 October 1917<br />
| nominator = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--><br />
| appointer = [[George V]]<br />
| predecessor = ''Position established''<br />
| successor = Thomas Fredrick Dawson Miller<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1866|06|04|df=y}}<br />
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1945|11|17|1866|06|04|df=y}}<br />
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| office1 = Judge of [[Allahabad High Court]]<br />
| term_start1 = 1910<br />
| term_end1 = 1915<br />
| appointer1 = [[George V]] <br />
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'''Sir Edward Maynard Des Champs Chamier''' [[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India|KCSI]], KCIE (4 June 1866 – 17 November 1945) was a British Indian judge and the first Chief Justice of the [[Patna High Court]] during the [[British Raj]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=The High Court of Judicature at Patna|url=http://patnahighcourt.gov.in/AboutUs.aspx|access-date=2021-06-06|website=patnahighcourt.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BCIMAQAAMAAJ&q=Edward+Maynard+Des+Champs|title=Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage|date=1971|publisher=Kelly's Directories|language=en}}</ref><ref name="NationalArchivesF44311">{{Cite web|work=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)]] |title=The Discovery Service|url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F44311|access-date=2021-06-06|language=en-GB}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Sir Edward Chamier passed [[Indian Civil Service]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Society|first=Bihar and Orissa Research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IahEAQAAMAAJ&q=Edward+Maynard+Des+Champs+ICS|title=Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society|date=1917|publisher=The Society|language=en}}</ref> He was knighted on 1 January 1916 and was appointed the Chief Justice of the Patna High Court on 1 March 1916 and retired on 30 October 1917. During this tenure he set up an example of judicial autonomy at the time of inaugurating the High Court building in 1916. In the opening ceremony Justice Chamier neither invited [[Lieutenant governor|Lieutenant Governor]] of the province Sir [[Edward Albert Gait]] nor even Viceroy [[Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst|Lord Hardinge]].<ref>{{Cite news|title=When Chief Justice of Patna High Court kept Viceroy Lord Hardinge, LG out|work=The Economic Times|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/when-chief-justice-of-patna-high-court-kept-viceroy-lord-hardinge-lg-out/articleshow/48316714.cms?from=mdr|access-date=2021-06-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|agency=Press Trust of India|date=2015-08-02|title=When Chief Justice of Patna High Court kept Viceroy, LG out|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/when-chief-justice-of-patna-high-court-kept-viceroy-lg-out-115080200269_1.html|access-date=2021-06-06}}</ref><br />
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Chamier was legal adviser to the Secretary of State for India in 1925–26.<ref name="NationalArchivesF44311" /><ref name=lambethpalacelibrary>{{citation |url=https://archives.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/calmview/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=GB%2F109%2F15062 |work=[[Lambeth Palace Library]] |title=Database of Manuscripts and Archives |access-date=9 June 2021}}</ref><br />
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