Sir Michael Roberts Westropp (29 June 1817 – 14 January 1890) was the Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court and former Advocate General of the Supreme Court, Bombay Presidency.

Early life

Westropp was born in 1817 in

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. He was the son of Henry Bruen Westropp, of the 7th Dragoon Guards and a magistrate of Cork, and Maria Wallis Armstrong. In 1838 he graduated from

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, and became a

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in 1840.

Career

He practiced law for more than 15 years in

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and then joined as a counsel in the Bombay Supreme Court and the

Bombay High Court The High Court of Bombay is the High courts of India, high court of the States and union territories of India, states of Maharashtra and Goa in India, and the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. It is seated primarily ...

. He also served as Member of the Bombay Legislative Council in 1862-63. In 1856, Westropp became the Advocate-General of Bombay. After Sir Richard Couch he held the office of Chief Justice of Bombay in 1870, and was knighted by letters patent. He was known for the judgments in ''Nawroji v. Rogers'' and ''Lopes v. Lopes''. Westropp retired from service due to illness.

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