12 Facts About John Edge

Sir John Edge was Chief Justice in the Allahabad High Court, India, during the British Raj era.

John Edge was the only child of Benjamin Booker Edge and his wife, Esther Anne.

John Edge was born on 28 July 1841 at Clonbrock in Queen's County, Ireland.

John Edge's family claimed a Saxon origin and had been in Ireland since the Stuart period.

In 1886, John Edge became a Queen's Counsel, was made a Knight Bachelor and appointed Chief Justice of the high court of the North-Western Provinces, British India.

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John Edge replaced William Comer Petheram in that role and was based in Allahabad.

John Edge demonstrated considerable administrative skills, such as arranging for the codification of the court's rules and, between 1887 and 1893, serving as the first vice-chancellor of the University of Allahabad.

John Edge headed the famine relief committee set up in response to the 1896 famine in India.

In January 1899, after his recent retirement from the Chief Justice role, John Edge became a judicial member of the Council of India and retained that role until 1908.

John Edge became a privy counsellor in January 1909 and in that role he heard many legal appeals from India between 1916 and May 1926, when he retired completely, just short of his 85th birthday.

John Edge married Laura Loughborough, the daughter of a solicitor from Surrey in England, in September 1867.

John Edge died suddenly on 30 July 1926 at his house, 123 Oakwood Court in Kensington, London.