James William Colvile
1810–80
Judge. Appointed advocate-general of Bengal, 1845; chief justice of Bengal, 1855–9. President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Knighted, 1848. FRS 1875.
Source
ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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