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{{Short description|British lawyer and judge (1861–1946)}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]] Sir
| name = John Edward Power Wallis
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| order1 = [[Advocate-General]] of [[Madras Presidency]]
| term_start1 = 1900
| term_end1 =1906
| predecessor1 = [[V. Bhashyam Aiyangar]] (acting)
| successor1 = [[C. Sankaran Nair]]
| order2 = [[Chief Justice]] of [[Madras High Court]]
| term_start2 = 1914
| term_end2 =1921
| predecessor2 = [[C. A. White|Sir Charles Arnold White]]
| successor2 = [[Walter George Salis Schwabe|Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe]]
| birth_date = 3 November 1861<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mair |first1=Robert Henry |title=Debrett's House of Commons and the Judicial Bench |date=1914 |publisher=Dean and Son |page=487 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rx5W6cC3-_4C&q=Sir+John+Edward+Power+Wallis+3+November+1861 |accessdate=4 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
| birth_place = [[Marylebone]], [[London]], England<ref>''1891 England Census''</ref>
| death_date = 8 June 1946
| death_place = [[Brighton]], [[Sussex]]<ref name="death">{{cite news |title= Deaths |work=[[The Times]] |date= 10 June 1946|page=1 }}</ref>
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| occupation =[[lawyer]], [[judge]]
| profession =[[Advocate-General]], [[Chief Justice]]
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'''Sir John Edward Power Wallis''' (3 November 1861 – 8 June 1946) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] lawyer who served as the [[Advocate-General of Madras]] from 1900 to 1906, and [[Chief Justice]] of the [[Madras High Court]] from 1914 to 1921.

== Early life and education ==

Wallis was born in 1861, son of John Edward Wallis, of [[Alexandria, Egypt]], formerly of London and the [[Inner Temple]], Judge in the Mixed Tribunals (International Court of Justice), [[Cairo]] and sometime editor and proprietor of Catholic weekly ''[[The Tablet]]''.<ref>''The Catholic Who's Who and Yearbook'', vol. 9, Sir [[Francis Cowley Burnand]], [[Burns & Oates]], 1916, pg 473</ref> He was educated at [[Ushaw College]], Durham, and the University of London (M.A.),<ref>''The County Families of the United Kingdom'', 59th ed., Edward Walford, 1919, pg 370</ref>and was called to the bar in 1886 from the [[Middle Temple]].<ref>''Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the Landed Gentry'', 1914, pg 2578</ref>

He served for some time as a reader in Madras before being appointed as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency in January 1900, succeeding [[C. A. White]].<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=27162 |page=806 |date=6 February 1900}}</ref>

== Legal career ==

Wallis served as the Advocate-General of the Madras Presidency from 1900 to 1906. He was also nominated to the [[Madras Legislative Council]] and served as an ex-officio member from 1904 to 1906. In 1907, Wallis was appointed judge of the [[Madras High Court]] and officiated as Chief Justice from July to October 1914. In November 1914, his appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court was confirmed, and he served as such until 1921. On 19 August 1926, he was appointed to the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]].<ref>{{London Gazette| issue=33193 |page=5514 |date=20 August 1926}}</ref>

He was a [[All_Souls_College,_Oxford#Fellows|Fellow of All Souls, Oxford]] and Vice-Chancellor of Madras University in 1908.<ref>''Who's Who'', A. & C. Black, 1918</ref> In 1903, he married Dorothea Margaret, daughter of William Richardson Fowke.<ref>''Burke's General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the Landed Gentry'', 1914, pg 2578</ref>

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== References ==
* {{cite book | title=Dictionary of Indian Biography| last=Buckland| first=C. E.| date=1915| pages=81| publisher=Swan Sonnenschein & Co| location=London}}
* http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary_(1915)/Wallis,_Sir_John_Edward_Power

==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author |sname=J. E. P. Wallis}}
* {{wikisource author-inline}}

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