Sir Edward John Gambier was a colonial jurist and law officer, who served as a judge in British India, Chief Justice of Madras and Recorder of Penang, Singapore, Malacca.
Background
Gambier, third son of Samuel Gambier, first commissioner of the navy (1752–1813), by Jane, youngest daughter of Daniel Mathew of Felix Hall, Essex, and nephew of Admiral James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier, was born in 1794 and entered at Eton in 1808.
Education
Eton College; Trinity College.
Career
He afterwards proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took his bachelor"s degree in 1817 and was the first President of the Cambridge Union. He was ninth senior optime, and junior chancellor"s medallist. He proceeded Master of Arts in 1820, and became a fellow of his college.
He was called to the bar at Lincoln"s Inn 7 February 1822, and acted as one of the municipal corporation commissioners in 1833.
The recordership of Prince of Wales Island was conferred on him in 1834, and he was knighted by William IV at Saint James"s Palace on 6 August in that year. A Treatise on Parochial Settlement, which he published in 1828, went to a second edition under the editorship of J. Greenwood in 1835.
He died at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, London, 31 May 1879, in his eighty-sixth year.