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{{Short description|English-born British Indian judge (1835-1922)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = William Comer Petheram
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| honorific_suffix = [[King's Counsel|KC]]
| image = William_Comer_Petheram_CU.jpg
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| office1 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Calcutta High Court|4th Chief Justice]] of [[Calcutta High Court]]
| term_start1 = 24 March 1886
| term_end1 = November 1896
| appointer1 = [[Queen Victoria]]
| predecessor1 = [[Richard Garth]]
| successor1 = [[Francis William Maclean]]
| office2 = [[List of former chief justices of the high courts of India#Allahabad High Court|3rd Chief Justice]] of [[Allahabad High Court]]
| term_start2 = 1 November 1864
| term_end2 = 23 March 1886
| appointer2 = [[Queen Victoria]]
| predecessor2 = Robert Stuart
| successor2 = [[John Edge]]
| birth_date = 1835
| birth_place = [[Lympsham]], [[Somerset]]
| death_date = 15 May 1922
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| children =
| alma_mater =
| occupation = [[lawyer]], [[judge]]
| profession = [[Chief Justice]]
| relations = [[Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet|Sir William Congreve]] ''(father-in-law)'',
| parents = William Petheram of Pinhoe
| spouse = Isabel Congreve
| signature =
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'''Sir William Comer Petheram''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KC}} (1835 – 15 May 1922)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F61500|title=Petheram, Sir William Comer|website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref> was an English-born British Indian judge. He was the Chief Justice of [[Allahabad High Court]] and [[Calcutta High Court]]. He was also the Vice Chancellor of [[University of Calcutta]]. He was made a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1884.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="times">{{cite news |title= Obituary: Sir W. C. Petheram |work=[[The Times]] |date= 19 May 1922 |page= 13 }}</ref>

==Career==
Petheram was born in 1835 in [[Lympsham]], [[Somerset]],<ref>''1911 England Census''</ref> the son of William Petheram of [[Pinhoe]]. In 1862 he was qualified as Special Pleader and passed from [[Middle Temple]] in 1869. He joined service as Chief Judge of the Chief Court of North-Western Provinces in India. Petheram first served as Chief justice of [[Allahabad High Court]] on 1 November 1884<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b2NPAAAAMAAJ&q=Sir+William+Comer+Petheram&pg=PA587|title=The India List and India Office List|last=Great Britain. India Office|year=1819|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref> to 1886<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://hcbaallahabad.in/index.php/abouthighcourt/|title=About High Court|website=hcbaallahabad.in|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-date=27 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327084349/http://hcbaallahabad.in/index.php/abouthighcourt/|url-status=dead}}</ref> then became the Chief Justice of [[Calcutta High Court]] on 24 March 1886 after [[Richard Garth|Sir Richard Garth]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/colonies-and-india-mar-05-1886-p-26/|title=Colonies And India|date=5 March 1886|website=newspaperarchive.com|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref> and retired in November 1896.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/former_cj.htm|title=Former Chief Justices|website=calcuttahighcourt.nic.in|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-date=15 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131215131337/http://calcuttahighcourt.nic.in/former_cj.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 1887-90 he was also the Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Calcutta|Calcutta University]].<ref name=":0">{{cite IBD1915|wstitle= Petheram, Sir William Comer |volume= 17.2 |page= 325 |year=1915|short=1}}</ref> In 1864, he wrote a book named ''The law and practice relating to discovery by interrogatories under the Common law procedure act, 1854''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/lawpracticerelat00peth|title=The law and practice relating to discovery by interrogatories under the Common law procedure act, 1854|year=1864|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e_dA0RAwd4oC&q=Sir+William+Comer+Petheram&pg=PA335|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|last=C. E. Buckland|year=1999|publisher=COSMO Publications |isbn=9788170208976|access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref>

He presided over the first seditious libel case in colonial india.

He was knighted in 1884.

He married Isabel Congreve, daughter of [[Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet]].<ref name="times"/>

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