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{{short description|Chief Justice of the Madras High Court}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2015}}
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| order1 = [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Madras High Court]]
| term_start1 =1929
| term_end1 =1937
| predecessor1 = Sir [[Murray Coutts-Trotter]]
| successor1 = Sir [[Lionel Leach (judge)|Alfred Henry Lionel Leach]]
| birth_date = 2 July 1877
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| death_date = 1960
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'''(Horace) Owen Compton Beasley''' (2 July 1877 – 1960)<ref>Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 2: From 1752 to 1900, part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, p. 203</ref> was the Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]] from 1929 to 1937.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hcmadras.tn.nic.in/cjlist.html|title=The former Chief Justices|website=hcmadras.tn.nic.in|access-date=June 28, 2018}}</ref>

==Biography==
Son of Ammon Beasley, general manager of the Taff Vale Railway Company, Beasley was born at [[Chiswick]], and educated at [[Westminster School|Westminster]] and [[Jesus College, Cambridge]] (B.A. 1899). He was [[Call to the bar|called to the Bar]] from the [[Inner Temple]] in 1902, and worked on the South Western Circuit. He was a [[puisne judge]] of the [[Supreme Court of Myanmar|High Court of Burma]] from 1923 to 1924, then at Madras from 1924 to 1929; he was appointed Chief Justice of the Madras High Court in 1929, serving in that capacity until 1937.<ref>Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 2: From 1752 to 1900, part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, p. 203</ref> It was said of him that "the Madras bar never lost faith in his sense of justice and honesty of purpose..." and that he had an "uncompromising sense of duty and utter disregard for personal distinction between lawyers", observing also his "imperial attitude of benevolent despotism".<ref>Lawyer, vol. 15, Indian Law Institute, Madras State Unit, 1983, p. 205</ref>

Beasley served in [[World War I]], first as a 2nd Lieutenant in the [[Royal Welch Fusiliers]], then as a Captain in the [[Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)]], and as a Major in the [[Royal Pioneer Corps|Labour Corps]]. He was appointed O.B.E. in 1919, and knighted in 1930. He was married with children, and lived at Bullingham Mansions, Pitt Street, London.<ref>Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. 2: From 1752 to 1900, part 1: Abbey-Challis, ed. John Venn, J. A. Venn, Cambridge University Press, p. 203</ref>

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