Sir Henry Vernon Drake-Brockman (8 November 1865 – 11 July 1933) was an Indian civil servant who served as a judge in the Central Provinces. He was knighted in 1913.
Born in Madras, Drake-Brockman was the oldest son of Henry Julius Drake-Brockman, Crown Solicitor of Madras, and Mary Ellinor Christian née Sims. He was educated at Charterhouse and St. Peter's College, Cambridge receiving a BA and LLB in 1886. [1] He passed the Indian Civil Service examination in 1883 and went to India in 1886 working in the Central Provinces. [2] He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1904 and became a Divisional and Sessions Judge in 1896, additional Judicial Commissioner in 1904 and a Judicial Commissioner from 1906. [3] He retired in 1921.
According to the future Chief Justice of India Mohammad Hidayatullah:
Sir Henry Drake-Brockman left a tradition for independence. It was said that he signed his last judgment against the Secretary of State-in-Council, and leaving the court went straight to the Railway Station to board his saloon. [4]
References
- ^ Drake-Brockman, David Henry., ed. (1936). Record of the Brockman and Drake-Brockman family. pp. 61–62.
- ^ The India List and India Office List for 1905. London: Harrison and Sons. p. 483.
- ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. Dalcassian. p. 166.
- ^ My Own Boswell: Memoirs of M. Hidayatullah. New Delhi: Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd. 2010. p. 73.