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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
| honorific-prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]<br />
| name = Sir James William Colvile<br />
| honorific-suffix = [[Fellow of the Royal Society|FRS]]<br />
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| office = [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]]<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|1810|1|12|df=y}}<br />
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1880|12|6|1810|1|12|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = London<br />
| spouse = Frances Elinor Grant <br />
| alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]]<br />
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'''Sir James William Colvile''' (12 January 1810 – 6 December 1880) was a British lawyer, civil servant and then judge in India, and a judge on the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]], the [[court of last resort]] for the British colonies.<br />
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==Life==<br />
He was born the eldest son of [[Andrew Colville|Andrew Wedderburn Colvile]] of Ochiltree and Crombie, Fife and educated at [[Eton College]] and [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where he graduated MA in 1834. He trained as a barrister and was called to the bar in 1835.{{sfn|Hamilton|1887}}<br />
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He practised at [[Lincoln's Inn]] for ten years before being appointed Advocate General to the [[East India Company]] in 1845. He went to Calcutta and was appointed [[Puisne Judge]] to the Supreme Court of Bengal in 1848 and [[Chief Justice of Bengal]] in 1855. He was knighted in 1848.{{sfn|Hamilton|1887}}<br />
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He was the first Vice Chancellor of the [[University of Calcutta]]. He served in this office for two years, from 24 January 1857 to 24 January 1859.<ref>[http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/university_frame.htm List of Vice Chancellors of the University of Calcutta] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808224127/http://www.caluniv.ac.in/About%20the%20university/university_frame.htm |date=2011-08-08 }}</ref> <br />
He was president of [[The Asiatic Society]].{{sfn|Hamilton|1887}}<br />
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He retired and returned to England in 1859. He was made a [[Privy Councillor]], initially as an Assessor to the Judicial Committee of the Council of India appeals, and eventually as a full member of the [[Judicial Committee of the Privy Council]].{{sfn|Hamilton|1887}} He gave the decision of the Judicial Committee in ''[[Dow v. Black]]'', an important constitutional case from Canada.<br />
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In April, 1875 he was elected a [[fellow of the Royal Society]].<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www2.royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27colvile%27%29| title= Library and Archive Catalogue | publisher= royal society | accessdate= 23 December 2010}}</ref><br />
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He died in London, of heart failure on 6 December 1880.{{sfn|Hamilton|1887}}<br />
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==Family==<br />
He married in 1857 Frances Elinor, daughter of Sir [[John Peter Grant]], K.C.B., G.C.M.G., of Rothiemurchus, lieutenant-governor of Lower Bengal.<br />
They had one son, Andrew John Wedderburn, born in 1859, who died in 1876.{{sfn|Hamilton|1887}}<br />
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{{DNB|wstitle=Colvile, James William|first= John Andrew|last= Hamilton|volume=11|page=417}}<br />
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