Louis Addin Kershaw
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Sir Louis Addin Kershaw (27 December 1844West Yorkshire, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813-1910 – 17 February 1899) was a British-AmericanU.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 judge who was Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and Allahabad High Court.
Career
Kershaw was born in Ohio, United States1850 United States Federal Census to British parents Matthew and Sarah Kershaw.1881 England Census He studied in Bradford Grammar School at Bradford{{Cite web|url=http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/mmk380.html#4340|title=Kershaw, Sir Louis Addin|publisher=calderdalecompanion.co.uk|access-date=3 January 2020}} and Pembroke College, Oxford.
On 18 November 1872, he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple{{Cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Men-at-the-Bar.djvu/292|title=Men-at-the-Bar.djvu/292|website=wikisource.org|access-date=1 June 2018}} and worked as revising Barrister in Yorkshire.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8AKI2nqPBQC&q=Louis+Addin+Kershaw+justice&pg=PA234|title=Dictionary of Indian Biography|access-date=1 June 2018|last1=Buckland|first1=C. E.|year=1971}}
In 1898, he was knighted and appointed the Chief Justice of Allahabad after John Edge.{{Cite web|url=http://www.allahabadhighcourt.in/photogallary/Chief-justice/newcj.htm|title=Chief Justices of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad (1866-1901)|access-date=1 June 2018}} He became the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, succeeding Sir Charles Frederick Farran.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=doM8DwAAQBAJ&q=Louis+addin+kershaw+chief+justice&pg=PT231|title=An Independent, Colonial Judiciary: A History of the Bombay High Court|last=Abhinav Chandrachud|date=28 May 2015|isbn=9780199089482|access-date=1 June 2018}} Kershaw served as Queen's or King's Counsel in Bombay.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bombayhighcourt.nic.in/cjshow.php?auth=amdldGlkPTUmcGFnZW5vPTE=|title=Sir LOUIS ADDIN KERSHAW|website=bombayhighcourt.nic.in|access-date=1 June 2018}}
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Category:Members of the Inner Temple
Category:Chief justices of the Allahabad High Court
Category:Chief justices of the Bombay High Court
Category:American expatriates in British India
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Category:19th-century Indian judges
Category:20th-century Indian judges
Category:People educated at Bradford Grammar School
Category:American people of English descent