John Paxton Norman
English jurist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir John Paxton Norman (21 October 1819 – 21 September 1871) was an English jurist who the acting chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. He was assassinated in 1871.
Paxton Norman was born in 1819; his father John Norman was a banker of Somerset. He was educated at Exeter Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, and then practiced as a special pleader. In 1862 he was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In British India he worked as a Puisne Judge of The Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William till 1871. Sir Paxton Norman was appointed as acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court in 1870.[1]
Paxton Norman was unpopular among Wahabis for imposing heavy sentences.[2] He was the author of many legal treatises and papers, and also took active part in Calcutta University as the president of the Law faculty.[3]
In 1871, while Norman was coming down the steps of the Kolkata Town Hall, an Indian Wahabi, Abdullah, attacked him and stabbed him to death. He died on 21 September 1871.[4][5][6] Sir Paxton Norman was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata.[3][7]
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