Henry Vernon Drake-Brockman

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Sir Henry Vernon Drake-Brockman (8 November 1865 – 11 July 1933) was an Indian civil servant who served a judge in the Central Provinces. He was knighted in 1913.

Drake-Brockman was the oldest son of Crown Solicitor of Madras Henry Julius Drake-Brockman 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 services 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]

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  1. ^ Drake-Brockman, David Henry., ed. (1936). Record of the Brockman and Drake-Brockman family. pp. 61–62.
  2. ^ The India List and India Office List for 1905. London: Harrison and Sons. p. 483.
  3. ^ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. Dalcassian. p. 166.

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