Sir John Paxton Norman (21 October 1819 – 21 September 1871) was an English jurist who the acting chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. He was assassinated in 1871.
Career
editPaxton Norman was born in 1819; his father John Norman was a banker of Somerset. He was educated at Exeter Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, and then practiced as a special pleader. In 1862 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In British India he worked as a Puisne Judge of The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William till 1871. Sir Paxton Norman was appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1870.[1]
Paxton Norman was unpopular among Wahabis for imposing heavy sentences.[2] He was the author of many legal treatises and papers, and also took active part in Calcutta University as the president of the Law faculty.[3]
Death
editIn 1871, while Norman was coming down the steps of the Kolkata Town Hall, an Indian Wahabi, Abdullah, attacked him and stabbed him to death. He died on 21 September 1871.[4][5][6] Sir Paxton Norman was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata.[3][7]
References
edit- ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ K. S. Bharathi (1998). Encyclopedeia of Eminent Thinkers. ISBN 9788180695810. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ a b C. E. Buckland (1999). Dictionary of Indian Biography. ISBN 9788170208976. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ "THE MURDER OF CHIEF JUSTICE NORMAN IN CALCUTTA". Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Ram Narayan Kumar (6 November 2012). Martyred but Not Tamed: The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East. ISBN 9788132117254. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
- ^ Volume-2: 1803-1920, G. S. Chhabra (2005). Advance Study in the History of Modern India. ISBN 9788189093075. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Monument to John Paxton Norman". Retrieved 3 June 2018.