Murray Coutts-Trotter

Sir Victor Murray Coutts-Trotter (12 May 1874 – 12 May 1929) was a British barrister who was Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1924 to 1929.[1][2]

Sir Murray Coutts-Trotter
Chief Justice of the Madras High Court
In office
1924–1929
Preceded bySir Walter George Salis Schwabe
Succeeded bySir Horace Owen Compton Beasley
Personal details
Born
Victor Murray Coutts-Trotter

12 May 1874
Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
Died12 May 1929 (aged 55)
at sea
Occupationlawyer, judge
ProfessionChief Justice

Biography

Son of Alexander Trotter, of Newcastle and London,[3][4] Trotter was educated at St. Paul's School, London and Balliol College, Oxford, and called to the Bar from the Inner Temple. In 1901 he stood 1st class in classical Moderations and in the Final School of Humanities. Trotter won Hertford and Eldon Law Scholarships. He became Assistant Professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool in 1898. Trotter also served as Vinerian Professor of Law and Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence in Oxford. He worked under Justice Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe as a junior Barrister in the Madras Presidency. In January 1915 he became a puisne judge of the Madras High Court[5] and was appointed Chief Justice on 3 June 1924. He was subsequently knighted[6] and resigned in 1929[7] due to ill-health; he died at sea on the journey back to England on his 55th birthday.[2][8] He had married in 1905, Dorothy Evelyn Mary, daughter of Admiralty clerk George W. Godfrey[9][10] (author of a one-act comic play, "My Milliner's Bill").[11] They had two sons and two daughters.[4]

References

  1. "The former Chief Justices". hcmadras.tn.nic.in. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  2. "Obituary: Sir Victor Coutts Trotter – Chief Justice of Madras". The Times. 14 May 1929. p. 18.
  3. The Balliol College Register, Oxford University Press, 1934, p. 212
  4. Who was who in British India, John F. Riddick, Greenwood Press, 1998, p. 367
  5. "The Indian Biographical Dictionary". Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  6. "The London Gazette" (PDF). 30 May 1924. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  7. Volume 1, S. Muthiah (2008). Madras, Chennai: A 400-year Record of the First City of Modern India. Palaniappa Brothers. ISBN 9788183794688. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  8. "Madras miscellany". The Hindu. 5 February 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  9. Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, 1931, p. 1334
  10. Kent & Sussex Courier, 11 Aug. 1905, British Newspaper Archive, Family Notices, digital folder number 102117802
  11. Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Part 1, Group 3- Dramatic Compositions and Motion Pictures, vol. 2, no. 1, Library of Congress Copyright Office, 1929, p. 435
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