Courtenay Peregrine ILBERT

Background

ILBERT, Courtenay Peregrine was born on June 12, 1841.

Education

Ilbert was educated at Marlborough College and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he was Hertford, Ireland, Craven, and Eldon law scholar. He graduated with first class honours in Literae Humaniores and was elected a fellow of Balliol in 1864.

Career

Ilbert served as the legal adviser to the Viceroy of India"s Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England. His later career included appointments as the Parliamentary Counsel to the British Treasury and as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1902 to 1921. Ilbert was called to bar (Lincoln"s Inn) in 1869.

He joined the Parliamentary Counsel Office, the department for drafting parliamentary bills.

During this period he introduced the Ilbert Bill in 1883 for British India that proposed an amendment for existing laws in the country at the time to allow Indian judges and magistrates the jurisdiction to try British offenders in criminal cases at the District level, something that was disallowed at the time. He was appointed assistant parliamentary counsel to Treasury in 1886 and parliamentary counsel in 1899.

In February 1902, Ilbert was appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, and he served as such until 1921.

Achievements

• Ilbert was invested as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1895, as a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1908, and as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath in 1911.

Works

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  • Legislative Methods and Forms - Scholar's Choice Edition

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  • Legislative Methods and Forms

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  • Legislative Methods and Forms - Primary Source Edition

    (This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. T...)

  • Legislative methods and forms

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  • Legislative Methods and Forms 1901 Hardcover

    (Lang:- English, Pages 421. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)

  • The Government of India; A Brief Historical Survey of Parliamentary Legislation Relating to India(Hardback) - 2015 Edition

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  • (Legislative Methods and Forms. ) Author: Courtenay Ilbert Dec-2010

Membership

He was a legal member of the Council of Governor-General of India from 1882-1886.

• Club : Athenaeum.