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Template:Use British English Sir Joseph Arnould (12 November 1813 – 16 February 1886)[1] was a writer and British judge in India.

Life

Born at Camberwell, he was the only son of Dr. Joseph Arnould and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Baily.[1] He was the great uncle of the actor, Laurence Olivier. He was educated at Charterhouse School[2] and then Wadham College, Oxford, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1836.[3] Five years later, Arnould was called to the bar by the Middle Temple.[3] For some time he wrote articles for the Daily News (UK) and in 1848 he published his first book.[1] Arnould was appointed puisne judge at the Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay in 1859, whereas he was created a Knight Bachelor.[3] In 1862, as the Bombay High Court was inaugurated, he became one of its first judges.[4] Arnould presided in the 1862 Maharaj Libel Case[5] and the 1866 Aga Khan case[6] and retired three years later in 1869.[1]

A close friend of the poet Robert Browning, he won himself the Newdigate Prize, awarded by the University of Oxford in 1834.[7] During his time with the Middle Temple, Arnould befriended also and shared rooms with Alfred Domett.[8] In January 1841, he married Maria, daughter of H. G. Ridgway. She died in 1859 and Arnould married a second time in the following year.[1] Arnould lived at White Cross House in Winterbrook, near Wallingford in Berkshire (now Oxfordshire). During his retirement, he moved to Italy and died at Florence on 16 November 1886.[2]

The Arnould Scholarship at the University of Bombay was named in his honour.[2]

Family

He was married twice: first, in 1841, to Maria, eldest daughter of H. G. Ridgeway; and, secondly, in 1860, to Ann Pitcairn, daughter of Major Carnegie, C.B.Template:Sfn

Works

  • Law of Marine Insurance (1848)
  • The Judgement in the Khoja Case (1866)
  • Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman, Formerly Lord Chief Justice of England (1873)

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Robert Browning and Alfred Domett{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Smith, Elder & Co.(1906)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars{{#if:Hutchinson|, Hutchinson}. The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.(2003). ISBN 1-58477-323-5
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland{{#if:Dod|, Dod}. Whitaker and Co.(1860)
  4. Bombay High Court, Official Website - Judges.
  5. How to Defame a God: Public Selfhood in the Maharaj Libel Case. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies({Template:Year).
  6. Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought{{#if:Daftary|, Daftary}. Cambridge University Press(2001). ISBN 0-521-00310-5
  7. Richard Browning: The Critical Heritage{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Routledge(1995). ISBN 0-415-13451-X
  8. The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry & Poetics{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Wiley-Blackwell(2000). ISBN 0-631-19916-0
Attribution

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  • A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple(1902)

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