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28 November 1836 as a puisne judge of the supreme court, and raised to the chief justiceship there 11 March 1842, being sworn in on 22 May. The duties of this high post he discharged with ability and efficiency until his retirement in 1849, when he received from the Hindu community of Madras a
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testimonial consisting of a silver centre-piece weighing 550 ounces, and Lady Gambier was at the same time presented with a handsome tripod centrepiece by the European ladies of Madras.
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and was awarded ninth senior optime and junior chancellor's medallist. He proceeded to earn his M.A. in 1820 and became a fellow of his college.
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The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or: Royal Manual of the Titled & Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland
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His wife died on 25 February 1877. He died at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, 31 May 1879, in his eighty-sixth year.
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7 February 1822 and acted as one of the municipal corporation commissioners in 1833. The recordership of
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which he published in 1828, went to a second edition under the editorship of J. Greenwood in 1835.
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Illustrated London News, 1 February 1851, p. 77, with views of the testimonials
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In 1828 Gambier married Emilia Ora Morgell, daughter of C. Morgell, M.P.
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was conferred on him in 1834 and he was knighted by
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William Beechey
Recorder of Penang, Singapore, Malacca
Sir Samuel Gambier
James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier
Eton College
Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge Union
Lincoln's Inn
Prince of Wales Island
William IV
St. James's Palace
Madras


Dictionary of National Biography
"Gambier, Edward John (GMR813EJ)"
The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or: Royal Manual of the Titled & Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain & Ireland
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Gambier, Edward John
Dictionary of National Biography
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1794 births
1879 deaths
People educated at Eton College
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Members of Lincoln's Inn
19th-century English judges
Chief justices of the Madras High Court
British India judges

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