Background
The eldest son of William Dwarris of Warwick and Golden Grove, Jamaica, by Sarah, daughter of W. Smith of Southam in Warwickshire, he was born in Jamaica on 23 October 1786.
The eldest son of William Dwarris of Warwick and Golden Grove, Jamaica, by Sarah, daughter of W. Smith of Southam in Warwickshire, he was born in Jamaica on 23 October 1786.
He inherited property there, but left the island in infancy, and entered Rugby School 23 October 1801. He went on to University College, Oxford, and took the degree of Bachelor of Arts on 1 March 1808. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple on 28 June 1811.
Through his connection with Jamaica, Dwarris was appointed in 1822 one of the commissioners to inquire into the state of the law in the colonies in the West Indies.
An act of parliament was based upon his report (he was the only surviving commissioner), and he was knighted on 2 May 1838. In 1850 he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple, and in 1859 he was appointed its treasurer.
On 28 February 1811 Dwarris married Alicia, daughter of Robert Brereton, a captain in the army.
Royal Society]
He acted s a member of the commission for examining into the municipal corporations, a master of the Queen"s Bench, recorder of Newcastle-under-Lyme, and counsel to the Board of Health. Dwarris was a Fellow of the Royal Society and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a vice-president of the Archæological Association, and a member of the Archæological Institute.