Background
JARDINE, John was born on September 27, 1844 in England. 3rd son of William Jardine, Justice of the Peace, Dunstable.
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John Jardine
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Studied at Christ College, Cambridge. Chancellor’s Gold Medal English Verse, Cambridge, 1864. Doctor of Laws.
Career
Fellow University of Bombay, 1872. Sometime Dean of Arts and Dean of Law. Vice - Chancellor, 1895.
President Royal Asiatic Society Bombay.
Entered Bombay Civil Service 1864. Political Officer in Native States of Kattywar, 1871.
Secretary for trial of the Gaekvar of Baroda, 1875. Secretary to Treaty with Portugal and Law Officer to Government of India, 1877.
Judicial Commissioner of Burma, 1878.
President Burma School Board, 1881. Chief Secretary to Bombay Government, holding the Political, Secret, Educational, Persian, and Judicial portfolios, 1885. Contested Roxburghshire Liberal, 1900.
Honourable Aber.; Member of Parliament (Liberal) Roxburghshire since 1906. Judge of High Court, Bombay, 1885. Acting Chief Justice, 1895.
Retired, 1897.
Politics
Liberal.
Membership
As well as his membership of the Liberal party, Sir John Jardine, 1st Baronet was a member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He had been elected in 1878 and his membership entry confirms the Lancaster Gate address.
Connections
Spouse 1880, Minnie Doctorate.,daughter of J. Hogg, Member Royal College of Surgeons
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Nationality
United Kingdom -
Political Party
The Liberal Party