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'''Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|GCIE|KCB|KCSI|KC|size=100%|sep=,}} (25 April 1878 – 12 October 1952) was a British lawyer, judge, and [[academic administrator]]. He served as Vice-Chancellor of [[Delhi University]] from 1938 to 1950, and [[Chief Justice of India]] from 1937 to 1943). He is credited with having founded the college [[Miranda House]] in 1948 in Delhi, India. Gwyer Hall, the oldest men residence for the university students is named after him.<ref>{{cite book|title=Advanced Study in the History of Modern India|author=Chhatra, G.S.|year= 2007|publisher=Lotus Press|isbn=978-81-89093-08-2|page=90}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=SIR MAURICE GWYER|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/10/14/archives/sir-maurice-gwyer.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=14 October 1952 }}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Gwyer was born to John Edward Gwyer and Edith Gwyer (''née'' Linford), and he had a sister, [[Barbara Gwyer]].<ref>{{cite ODNB|last=Keene|first=Anne|title=Gwyer, Barbara Elizabeth (1881–1974)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/52032|accessdate=23 April 2014|date=January 2007|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/52032}}</ref> He was educated at [[Highgate School]] from 1887 to 1892, then at [[Westminster School]], before he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] from [[Christ Church, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Thomson|editor-first1=W Sinclair |title=Highgate School Roll 1833–1922|year=1927|page=127|edition=3rd}}</ref> In November 1902 he was elected a [[Fellow (academic)|Fellow]] of [[All Souls College, Oxford]].<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |articlename=University intelligence |day_of_week=Tuesday |date=4 November 1902 |page_number=8 |issue=36916| }}</ref><br />
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He was appointed [[Order of the Bath|CB]] (1921), [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] (1928), [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] (1935), and [[Order of the Indian Empire|GCIE]] (1948). He became an honorary student of Christ Church (1937), an honorary DCL of Oxford (1939), LLD of Travancore (1943) and Patna (1944), and DLitt of Delhi (1950).<br />
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He died at his home, 14 Kepplestone, Eastbourne, Sussex, on 12 October 1952, and was buried at St Marylebone cemetery, East Finchley, on 17 October.<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*Records on Sir Maurice Gwyer are available in the British Library, [[Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections]] (previously Oriental and India Office Library) – papers (0304/09)<br />
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==External links==<br />
*Douglas Veale, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33619 ‘Gwyer, Sir Maurice Linford (1878–1952)’], rev. S. M. Cretney, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006. Retrieved 11 January 2008<br />
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