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{{Short description|British judge}}
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{{Use British English|date=August 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Walter Schwabe
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| honorific_suffix = [[King's Counsel|KC]]
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| office1 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Madras High Court|7th Chief Justice]] of [[Madras High Court]]
| term_start1 = 1921
| term_end1 = 1924
| predecessor1 = [[J. E. P. Wallis]]
| successor1 = [[Murray Coutts-Trotter]]
| appointer1 = [[George V]]
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 3 March 1873
| birth_place = London, England<ref>Cheltenham College Register 1841-1889, ed. A. A. Hunter, George Bell & Sons (London), 1890, p. 377</ref>
| death_date = 20 April 1931 (aged 58)
| death_place = London, England
| children =
| alma_mater = [[Cheltenham College]], [[Marlborough College]], [[Trinity College, Oxford]]
| parents = {{ubl|[[George Salis-Schwabe]]|Mary Jacqueline}}
| relatives = [[William Milbourne James (judge)|William Milbourne James]] ''(maternal grandfather)''
| spouse = [[Julie Schwabe]]
| occupation = [[Lawyer]], [[judge]]
| profession = [[Chief Justice]]
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'''Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KC}} (3 March 1873 – 20 April 1931)<ref>''Lawyer: the monthly legal journal'', vol. 5, 1973, pg 46</ref> was a British barrister and [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Madras High Court]] from 1921 to 1924 in [[Presidencies and provinces of British India|British India]].<ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir Walter Schwabe K.C. |work=[[The Times]] |date=22 April 1931 |page= 16 }}</ref>

Schwabe was the second son of [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] politician Maj.-Gen. [[George Salis-Schwabe|George Salis Schwabe]], [[Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath|C.B.]], by his wife Mary Jacqueline, daughter of [[William Milbourne James (judge)|Sir William Milbourne James]], [[Lord Justice of Appeal]] in 1870. His paternal grandfather, Salis (born Solomon ben Elias) Schwabe (1800–1853), of Crumpsall House, Manchester, and [[Glyn Garth]], Anglesey, formerly of Rhodes House, Middleton, was a successful calico printer of Jewish origin who was born in Ovelgönne (near Oldenburg), first settled in Glasgow in 1817, then moved to Rhodes (near Manchester) in 1832 and converted to the [[Anglican Church]], ten years later to [[Unitarianism]]. He married his cousin [[Julie Schwabe]], who became a noted educationist.<ref>''New Illustrated Lives of Great Composers: Chopin'', Ateş Orga, Omnibus Press, 2015</ref><ref>''Musical Visitors to Britain'', Peter Gordon, 2007, p. 155</ref><ref name="times"/>

Educated at [[Cheltenham College]], [[Marlborough College]] and [[Trinity College, Oxford]] (B.A. 1894), Schwabe was [[call to the Bar|called to the Bar]] from the [[Inner Temple]] 26 January 1897, and entered the [[Northern Circuit]]. He was appointed [[King's Counsel]] in 1913. He was joint author of ''Schwabe and Branson's Law of the Stock Exchange'' and ''Effect of War on Stock Exchange''.<ref name="debrett1297">''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, Kelly's Directories'', 1963, pg 1297</ref><ref name="debrett1221">''Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage'', 1931, pg 1221</ref><ref>''The Madras Weekly Notes'', 1921, pg 78</ref>

Schwabe was a well-regarded figure professionally: his 'brilliance as a student, his success at the English Bar, and his attainment as an author gave especial Satisfaction to the members of the Madras Bar'.<ref>Lawyer: the monthly legal journal, vol. 5, 1973, pg 42</ref> Schwabe also served as a captain in the [[19th Battalion, London Regiment (St Pancras)|19th Volunteer Battalion, London Regiment]] during the [[First World War]].<ref name="debrett1221"/> He was created [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1922 (Gazetted April 14).<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13804/page/657| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180218081422/https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/13804/page/657| archive-date = 2018-02-18| title = Page 657 {{!}} Issue 13804, 14 April 1922 {{!}} Edinburgh Gazette {{!}} The Gazette}}</ref>

He married firstly, in 1901, Margaret (d. 1927), daughter of Arthur Sanderson, of [[Edinburgh]]; his second wife (m. 1927) was Violet Beatrice, daughter of Percival Edward Reeve and Beatrice Mary, daughter of Capt. George Fearnley-Whittingstall, J.P., of Watford and Hawkswick, Herts., later Mrs Cecil John Thornhill.

Schwabe died 20 April 1931.<ref name="debrett1297"/><ref name="debrett1221"/>

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Md. Toslim Bhuiyan Prantik: entry