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Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Madras (1756-1841)
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About Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange
Sir Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange was a chief justice in Nova Scotia, known for waging "judicial war" to free Black Nova Scotian slaves from their owners. From 1789 to 1797, he was the sixth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia. He became the first Chief Justice of the erstwhile Supreme Court of Madras, was in that capacity also the first Chief Justice of the Madras Presidency, British India from 1801 to 1817, and also wrote a two-volume text on Hindu law.
Everything about Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange →- Occupation
- judge, jurist
- Position held
- Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Madras
- Born
- November 30, 1756
- Died
- July 16, 1841