Draft:Arthur Phillips (barrister)
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Arthur Phillips (1838 – 1921) was the Standing Counsel to the Government of India.[1] He was awarded the Tagore Law Professorship (1874–75) at Calcutta University. [2]
Life
[edit]Phillips was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom, the eldest son of Thomas Phillips, a waiter, and Eliza Phillips, a seamstress.[3][4]
He took his degree at St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 1864, being 15th Wrangler in the Mathematical Tripos, and was subsequently elected to a Fellowship at the same College in 1866. He joined the Middle Temple and was called to the Bar in 1867.[3] Shortly after being called to the bar, Phillips went to India, where he practised at the Calcutta Bar until 1895, and afterwards in England before the Privy Council.
While in India he became a Fellow of the University of Calcutta in 1873[5], held the office of Standing Counsel to the Government of India, and was at one time Secretary to the Legislative Council of the Government of India.[1]
He was the author of two legal works, "The Law Relating to the Land Tenures of Lower Bengal," and (in collaboration with Sir Ernest Trevelyan, who was also a Tagore Law Professor[6]) "Hindu Wills.".[1]
1874-75 Tagore Law Lectures
[edit]Debjani Bhattacharyya writes that Phillips offered an extensive introduction to the existing land laws in his lectures. Critiquing earlier comprehensive accounts of Indian legal thought by colonial officials constitutes one of the primary focuses of his lecture series. Phillips gave his lectures during a period when the piecemeal local and presidency laws were slowly being consolidated into uniform laws for the whole of British India. His lectures note that information about existing land tenure in precolonial India at hand was at best "vague, but oftener full of contradiction, and one is haunted by the suspicion that anything like a definite account of the matter must be wrong."[7]
Phillips argued that the proprietary right of minerals was separable from permanent grants to land revenue. This view was not shared by those in the colonial state who viewed the Permanent Settlement as a peculiar delegation of landed sovereignty. [8]
Works
[edit]Phillips, Arthur (1876). The Law Relating to The Land Tenures of Lower Bengal. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co. ISBN 978-1178174151.
Phillips, Arthur; Trevelyan, Ernest (1901). The Law Relating to Hindu Wills, Including the Hindu Wills Act and the Probate and Administration Act. London: W. Thacker & Company.
Phillips, Arthur (1923). The Failure of the Higher Criticism of the Old Testament. London: London : John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mr. Arthur Phillips". The Times. January 4, 1921. p. 13. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ University of Calcutta. "Tagore Law Lectures: Catalogue". University of Calcutta, Library E-Book Catalogue. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-Bar: A Biographical Hand-List of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc. p. 363. ISBN 978-1112093944.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Museum of Cambridge (30 December 2024). "4 Market Street". Capturing Cambridge. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Minutes for the Year 1872-73". Calcutta: Office of Superintendent of Government Printing. 29 March 1873. p. 144.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Sir Ernest John Trevelyan". The Times. 30 July 1924. p. 14. Retrieved 1 January 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bhattacharyya, Debjani (12 December 2015). "History of Eminent Domain in Colonial thought and Legal Practice". Economic & Political Weekly (Mumbai, India) – via NewsBank.
- ^ Shutzer M. (25 March 2021). "Subterranean Properties: India's Political Ecology of Coal, 1870–1975". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 63 (2): 400 – via Cambridge University Press.