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==Early life and family==
==Early life and family==
Edward Grimwood Mears was born on 21 January 1869,<ref name=MT>{{Cite web|url=http://www.margarettempest.com/newsite/margaret-tempest/her-husband/|title=Her husband {{!}} Margaret Mary Tempest|language=en|access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref> the only son of William Mears of Winchester. He graduated from [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]], University of Oxford, in 1893 and two years later was [[called to the bar]] at the [[Inner Temple]].<ref name="Walford1860">{{cite book|author=Walford, Edward|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA921|date=1860|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|page=921|id=GGKEY:LS5B277K36E}}</ref>
Edward Grimwood Mears was born on 21 January 1869,<ref name=MT>{{Cite web|url=http://www.margarettempest.com/newsite/margaret-tempest/her-husband/|title=Her husband {{!}} Margaret Mary Tempest|language=en|access-date=19 January 2020}}</ref> the only son of William Mears of Winchester. He graduated from [[Exeter College, Oxford|Exeter College]], University of Oxford, in 1893 and two years later was [[called to the bar]] at the [[Inner Temple]].<ref name="Walford1860">{{cite book|author=Walford, Edward|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA921|date=1860|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|page=921|id=GGKEY:LS5B277K36E}}</ref>


In 1896, he married Annie, daughter of G. P. Jacob of Bryngoleu, Shawford.<ref name="MT" /> They had a son, Brigadier-General Gerald Grimwood Mears and a daughter, Isabel,<ref name="MT" /> whose son was the noted gastroenterologist, [[Alex Paton (physician)|Alex Paton]].<ref name="MunksRoll">{{Cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/7146|title=Munks Roll details for Alexander Paton|website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk|access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref> After the death of his wife Annie in 1943, Mears in 1951 married her cousin, [[Margaret Tempest]], an author and illustrator of children's books.<ref name=suffolkartists>{{Cite web|url=https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=787|title=Suffolk Artists - TEMPEST, Margaret Mary|website=suffolkartists.co.uk|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref>
In 1896, he married Annie, daughter of G. P. Jacob of Bryngoleu, Shawford.<ref name="MT" /> They had a son, Brigadier-General Gerald Grimwood Mears and a daughter, Isabel,<ref name="MT" /> whose son was the noted gastroenterologist, [[Alex Paton (physician)|Alex Paton]].<ref name="MunksRoll">{{Cite web|url=http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/7146|title=Munks Roll details for Alexander Paton|website=munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk|access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref> After the death of his wife Annie in 1943, Mears in 1951 married her cousin, [[Margaret Tempest]], an author and illustrator of children's books.<ref name=suffolkartists>{{Cite web|url=https://suffolkartists.co.uk/index.cgi?choice=painter&pid=787|title=Suffolk Artists - TEMPEST, Margaret Mary|website=suffolkartists.co.uk|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref>


==First World War==
==First World War==
At the request of the British government, Mears gave up his practice at the bar to work on the Bryce Commission, also known as the [[Committee on Alleged German Outrages]], which looked at the 1914-15 [[rape of Belgium|German atrocities in Belgium]]. In 1916, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission on the [[Easter Rising]] in Ireland.<ref name="Gilbert2015">{{cite book|author=Gilbert, Martin|title=Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916|url=https://books.google.com/?id=n2hsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1919|year=2015|publisher=Rosetta Books|location=Hllsdale, Michigan|isbn=978-0-7953-4451-0|page=1919}}</ref><ref name=Macleod2001>{{Cite journal|last=Macleod|first=Jenny|date=2001|title=General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles Commission|journal=War in History|volume=8|issue=4|pages=418–441|doi=10.1177/096834450100800403|jstor=26013908|issn=0968-3445}}</ref>
At the request of the British government, Mears gave up his practice at the bar to work on the Bryce Commission, also known as the [[Committee on Alleged German Outrages]], which looked at the 1914-15 [[rape of Belgium|German atrocities in Belgium]]. In 1916, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission on the [[Easter Rising]] in Ireland.<ref name="Gilbert2015">{{cite book|author=Gilbert, Martin|title=Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n2hsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1919|year=2015|publisher=Rosetta Books|location=Hllsdale, Michigan|isbn=978-0-7953-4451-0|page=1919}}</ref><ref name=Macleod2001>{{Cite journal|last=Macleod|first=Jenny|date=2001|title=General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles Commission|journal=War in History|volume=8|issue=4|pages=418–441|doi=10.1177/096834450100800403|jstor=26013908|s2cid=159552637|issn=0968-3445}}</ref>


He contributed to the reply to ''[[The German White Book]]''.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} He was appointed secretary of the [[Dardanelles Commission]], and in return received a knighthood.<ref name="Shandler2009">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u79VDgAAQBAJ&pg=PR2-IA44|title=The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II|last=Shandler|first=Nina|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-306-81438-9|chapter=21. Opening the Defense}}</ref><ref name="Bell2017">{{cite book|author=Bell, Christopher M.|title=Churchill and the Dardanelles|url=https://books.google.com/?id=bVkjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA225|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|language=en|isbn=978-0-19-870254-2|page=225}}</ref> In 1918, he was Lord Reading's assistant on a trip to Washington,<ref name="Gilbert2015"/> when he represented Britain on the inter-allied cereal committee.<ref name="Walford1860"/>
He contributed to the reply to ''[[The German White Book]]''.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}} He was appointed secretary of the [[Dardanelles Commission]], and in return received a knighthood.<ref name="Shandler2009">{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u79VDgAAQBAJ&pg=PR2-IA44|title=The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II|last=Shandler|first=Nina|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2009|isbn=978-0-306-81438-9|chapter=21. Opening the Defense}}</ref><ref name="Bell2017">{{cite book|author=Bell, Christopher M.|title=Churchill and the Dardanelles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVkjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA225|year=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|language=en|isbn=978-0-19-870254-2|page=225}}</ref> In 1918, he was Lord Reading's assistant on a trip to Washington,<ref name="Gilbert2015"/> when he represented Britain on the inter-allied cereal committee.<ref name="Walford1860"/>


==High Court of Judicature at Allahabad==
==High Court of Judicature at Allahabad==
In 1919, Mears was appointed [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Allahabad High Court|High Court of Judicature at Allahabad]], India.<ref name="CGC">{{cite web|url=http://www.gandjlawrence.co.uk/GolfClub/hro/GrimwoodMears/GrimwoodMears.htm|title=Sir Edward Grimwood-Mears|website=The History of Corhampton Golf Club|access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref><ref name=AHC>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/photogallary/Chief-justice/newcj_1.htm|title=Chief Justices of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad|website=www.allahabadhighcourt.in|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref> He despised [[Indian nationalism]] and during his time in Allahabad, he tried to persuade [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to become education minister for the British government in India.<ref name="Chandrachud2015">{{cite book|last=Chandrachud|first=Abhinav |title=An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947|url=https://books.google.com/?id=doM8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT210|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-908948-2|page=210}}</ref><ref name="Varma2019">{{cite book|author= Varma, Himendra Nath|title=My Allahabad Story|url=https://books.google.com/?id=jcSGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT163|year=2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-93-88038-02-7|page=163}}</ref><ref name=Nehru1936>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12675|title=Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography|last=Nehru|first=Jawaharlal|date=1936|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Delhi|pages=100–102}}</ref>
In 1919, Mears was appointed [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Allahabad High Court|High Court of Judicature at Allahabad]], India.<ref name="CGC">{{cite web|url=http://www.gandjlawrence.co.uk/GolfClub/hro/GrimwoodMears/GrimwoodMears.htm|title=Sir Edward Grimwood-Mears|website=The History of Corhampton Golf Club|access-date=17 January 2020}}</ref><ref name=AHC>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/photogallary/Chief-justice/newcj_1.htm|title=Chief Justices of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad|website=www.allahabadhighcourt.in|access-date=18 January 2020}}</ref> He despised [[Indian nationalism]] and during his time in Allahabad, he tried to persuade [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] to become education minister for the British government in India.<ref name="Chandrachud2015">{{cite book|last=Chandrachud|first=Abhinav |title=An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=doM8DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT210|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-908948-2|page=210}}</ref><ref name="Varma2019">{{cite book|author= Varma, Himendra Nath|title=My Allahabad Story|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jcSGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT163|year=2019|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|location=New Delhi|isbn=978-93-88038-02-7|page=163}}</ref><ref name=Nehru1936>{{Cite book|url=http://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.12675|title=Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography|last=Nehru|first=Jawaharlal|date=1936|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Delhi|pages=100–102}}</ref>


In India, Mears acted as an intermediary between [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Irwin]] and key leaders in the Indian National Congress. He [Mears], was reported to have informed Irwin, of his discussion about India's request for [[Dominion status]] at one meeting with Motilal Nehru on 24 March 1929, at the residence of [[Tej Bahadur Sapru]]. It was subsequently at Mear's suggestion to Irwin that a round table conference should be convened to discuss the request.<ref name="Bose2004">{{cite book|author=Bose, Mihir|title=Raj, Secrets, Revolution: A Life of Subhas Chandra Bose|url=https://books.google.com/?id=4Rh7DAdsK0gC&pg=PA92|year=2004|publisher=Grice Chapman Publishing|location=London|isbn=0-9545726-4-5|page=92}}</ref><ref name="Mukherjee2015">{{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Rudrangshu|title=Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives|url=https://books.google.com/?id=TwyPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|year=2015|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-93-5118-849-0|page=64}}</ref>{{Explain|date=January 2020}}
In India, Mears acted as an intermediary between [[Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax|Irwin]] and key leaders in the Indian National Congress. He [Mears], was reported to have informed Irwin, of his discussion about India's request for [[Dominion status]] at one meeting with Motilal Nehru on 24 March 1929, at the residence of [[Tej Bahadur Sapru]]. It was subsequently at Mear's suggestion to Irwin that a round table conference should be convened to discuss the request.<ref name="Bose2004">{{cite book|author=Bose, Mihir|title=Raj, Secrets, Revolution: A Life of Subhas Chandra Bose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Rh7DAdsK0gC&pg=PA92|year=2004|publisher=Grice Chapman Publishing|location=London|isbn=0-9545726-4-5|page=92}}</ref><ref name="Mukherjee2015">{{cite book|last=Mukherjee|first=Rudrangshu|title=Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TwyPBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT64|year=2015|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-93-5118-849-0|page=64}}</ref>{{Explain|date=January 2020}}


==Publications==
==Publications==

Latest revision as of 13:11, 19 July 2021

Sir
Edward Grimwood Mears
Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court
Personal details
Born21 January 1869
Died20 May 1963
Spouse(s)Margaret Tempest
Alma materExeter College, University of Oxford

Sir Edward Grimwood Mears KCIE (21 January 1869 - 20 May 1963) is best known for his role as secretary of the Dardanelles Commission, for which he received a knighthood, and his later role as a British Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, India.

In 1895, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. He later gave up his practice at the bar to at first work on the Committee on Alleged German Outrages, which looked at the 1914-15 German atrocities in Belgium and then the Royal Commission on the Easter Rising in Ireland.

Early life and family[edit | edit source]

Edward Grimwood Mears was born on 21 January 1869,[1] the only son of William Mears of Winchester. He graduated from Exeter College, University of Oxford, in 1893 and two years later was called to the bar at the Inner Temple.[2]

In 1896, he married Annie, daughter of G. P. Jacob of Bryngoleu, Shawford.[1] They had a son, Brigadier-General Gerald Grimwood Mears and a daughter, Isabel,[1] whose son was the noted gastroenterologist, Alex Paton.[3] After the death of his wife Annie in 1943, Mears in 1951 married her cousin, Margaret Tempest, an author and illustrator of children's books.[4]

First World War[edit | edit source]

At the request of the British government, Mears gave up his practice at the bar to work on the Bryce Commission, also known as the Committee on Alleged German Outrages, which looked at the 1914-15 German atrocities in Belgium. In 1916, he was appointed secretary to the Royal Commission on the Easter Rising in Ireland.[5][6]

He contributed to the reply to The German White Book.[citation needed] He was appointed secretary of the Dardanelles Commission, and in return received a knighthood.[7][8] In 1918, he was Lord Reading's assistant on a trip to Washington,[5] when he represented Britain on the inter-allied cereal committee.[2]

High Court of Judicature at Allahabad[edit | edit source]

In 1919, Mears was appointed Chief Justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, India.[9][10] He despised Indian nationalism and during his time in Allahabad, he tried to persuade Jawaharlal Nehru to become education minister for the British government in India.[11][12][13]

In India, Mears acted as an intermediary between Irwin and key leaders in the Indian National Congress. He [Mears], was reported to have informed Irwin, of his discussion about India's request for Dominion status at one meeting with Motilal Nehru on 24 March 1929, at the residence of Tej Bahadur Sapru. It was subsequently at Mear's suggestion to Irwin that a round table conference should be convened to discuss the request.[14][15][further explanation needed]

Publications[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Her husband | Margaret Mary Tempest". Retrieved 19 January 2020.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Walford, Edward (1860). The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. p. 921. GGKEY:LS5B277K36E.
  3. ↑ "Munks Roll details for Alexander Paton". munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  4. ↑ "Suffolk Artists - TEMPEST, Margaret Mary". suffolkartists.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Gilbert, Martin (2015). Winston S. Churchill: The Challenge of War, 1914–1916. Hllsdale, Michigan: Rosetta Books. p. 1919. ISBN 978-0-7953-4451-0.
  6. ↑ Macleod, Jenny (2001). "General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Dardanelles Commission". War in History. 8 (4): 418–441. doi:10.1177/096834450100800403. ISSN 0968-3445. JSTOR 26013908. S2CID 159552637.
  7. ↑ Shandler, Nina (2009). "21. Opening the Defense". The Strange Case of Hellish Nell: The Story of Helen Duncan and the Witch Trial of World War II. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81438-9.
  8. ↑ Bell, Christopher M. (2017). Churchill and the Dardanelles. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-19-870254-2.
  9. ↑ "Sir Edward Grimwood-Mears". The History of Corhampton Golf Club. Retrieved 17 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "Chief Justices of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad". www.allahabadhighcourt.in. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
  11. ↑ Chandrachud, Abhinav (2015). An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947. Oxford University Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-19-908948-2.
  12. ↑ Varma, Himendra Nath (2019). My Allahabad Story. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 163. ISBN 978-93-88038-02-7.
  13. ↑ Nehru, Jawaharlal (1936). Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography. Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 100–102.
  14. ↑ Bose, Mihir (2004). Raj, Secrets, Revolution: A Life of Subhas Chandra Bose. London: Grice Chapman Publishing. p. 92. ISBN 0-9545726-4-5.
  15. ↑ Mukherjee, Rudrangshu (2015). Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives. Penguin Books Limited. p. 64. ISBN 978-93-5118-849-0.

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