Grimwood Mears
Sir Grimwood Mears | |
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| Chief justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, India | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 21 January 1869 |
| Died | 20 May 1963 |
| Spouse | Margaret Tempest |
| Relations | Alex Paton (grandson) |
| Alma mater | Exeter College, University of Oxford |
Sir Edward Grimwood Mears KCIE (21 January 1869 - 20 May 1963) was a British barrister, who gave up his practice at the Bar to work on the Committee on Alleged German Outrages, which looked at the 1914-15 German atrocities in Belgium. He was appointed secretary of the Dardanelles Commission in return for a knighthood, worked on the reply to The German White Book, and in 1916 was part of the Royal Commission on the Easter Rising in Ireland.
In 1919, Mears was appointed chief justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, India.