Background
MACLEAN, Francis William was born on December 13, 1844. 3rd son of late Alexander Maclean, Barrow Hedges, Carshalton.
MACLEAN, Francis William was born on December 13, 1844. 3rd son of late Alexander Maclean, Barrow Hedges, Carshalton.
Studied at Westminster School. Trinity College, Cambridge (Master of Arts).
Barrister Inner Temple, 1868. Queen’s Counsel 1886. Bencher, 1892; M. P. for Mid-Oxfordshire, Warwick Liberal, 1885-1886.
As L.U. 1886-1891; appointed Master in Lunacy, 1891. Chief Justice of Bengal, 1896- 1909. Kaiser-i-Hind Gold Medal, 1900.
Chairman of Indian Famine Relief Committees, 1897 and 1900.
Clubs: Brooks’s, Garrick.
Spouse 1869, M.,daughter of late John Sowerby.