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{{Infobox Officeholder
| name = Sir Colley Scotland
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| order1 = [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Madras High Court]]
| term_start1 = 1860
| term_end1 = 1871
| predecessor1 = Sir [[Henry Davison (judge)|Henry Davison]]
| successor1 = Sir [[Adam Bittleston]]
| birth_name = Colley Harman Scotland
| birth_date = 16 June 1818
| birth_place = [[Antigua]], West Indies<ref>''1851 England Census''</ref>
| death_date = 20 January 1903 (aged 84)
| death_place = [[Kensington]], London
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| occupation = [[lawyer]], [[judge]]
| profession = [[Chief Justice]]
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'''Sir Colley Harman Scotland''' (16 June 1818 – 20 January 1903)<ref>{{cite book|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|year = 1971|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&pg=PA378|access-date=7 July 2013|publisher=Ardent Media|pages=378–|id=GGKEY:BDL52T227UN}}</ref> was the first Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]]<ref name="Choudhuri2006">{{cite book|author=Mina Choudhuri|title=Glimpses Of The Justice System Of Presidency Towns (1687-1973)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u4CkPXiF_vkC&pg=PA197|access-date=7 July 2013|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Regency Publications|isbn=978-81-89233-32-7|page=197}}</ref> in [[British India]].

Scotland was born in the West Indies, the son of Thomas Scotland, Registrar of [[Antigua]] and deputy-paymaster of the British forces in Jamaica, and his wife, Sarah Haverkam.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage |date=1898 |publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited. |page=1692 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NlhQAQAAMAAJ&q=Colley+Harman+Scotland+b.&pg=PA1692 |access-date=1 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=The baronetage and knightage |date=1881 |publisher=Nichols and Sons |page=733 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uFE4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA733 |access-date=1 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

He was [[Call to the bar|called to the bar]] at the [[Middle Temple]] in 1843. He was successor of Sir [[Henry Davison (judge)|Henry Davison]] as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Madras after he died at [[Ooty|Ootacamund]] on 4 November 1860. He arrived at [[Madras]] on 23 May 1861<ref name="Commons1862">{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WCRcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA211|year=1862|publisher=Ordered to be printed|page=211}}</ref> and was sworn in on 24 May 1861. He served as the first Chief Justice of the [[Madras High Court]] from 1861 to 1871. He also served as the Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Madras]] from 1862 to 1871.

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