Walter George Salis Schwabe

Walter George Salis Schwabe (1873- 20 April 1931)^[1] was a British barrister and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1921 to 1924.

Schwabe was the son of Liberal politician Maj.-Gen. George Salis Schwabe, C.B., by his wife Mary Jaqueline, daughter of Sir William Milbourne James, Lord Justice of Appeal in 1870. Educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Oxford (B.A. 1894), Schwabe was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple 26 January 1897, and entered the Northern Circuit. He was appointed King's Counsel in 1913. He was joint author of 'Schwabe and Branson's Law of the Stock Exchange' and 'Effect of War on Stock Exchange'.^[2][3][4]

Schwabe was a well-regarded figure professionally: his 'brilliance as a student, his success at the English Bar, and his attainment as an author gave especial Satisfaction to the members of the Madras Bar'.^[5] Schwabe also served as a Captain in the 19th Volunteer Battalion, London Regiment during the First World War.^[6] He was created Knight Bachelor in 1922 (Gazetted April 14).^[7]

He married firstly, in 1901, Margaret (d. 1927), daughter of Arthur Sanderson, of Edinburgh; his second wife (m. 1927) was Violet Beatrice, daughter of Percival Edward Reeve and Beatrice Mary, daughter of Capt. George Fearnley-Whittingstall, J.P., of Watford and Hawkswick, Herts., later Mrs Cecil John Thornhill.

Schwabe died 20 April 1931.^[8][9]

References