145. Gwyer ( Sir Maurice Linford, lawyer and civil servant, Chief Justice of India 1937-43, 1878-1952) Large collection of correspondence and papers, including: family matters, references to his work, “the Commons considers the Lords’ amendments to the India Bill on Tuesday & I should think that Royal Assent would be given on Thursday or Friday”, life in India as Chief Justice of India, “... I went to Calcutta & stayed with the Viceroy & family. The family were very cheerful & we all wore hats & pulled crackers on Christmas Day” & other papers including a memoranda on South Africa & references to Indian politics, ephemera ( The General Strike... and its Effects on the L.M. & S. Railway ), telegrams, photograph album (partly in connection with the activities of Herbert L. Gwyer, Bishop of George, South Africa) & photographs, 3 vol. The Coronation Service etc., v.s., v.d. c. 1915-49 (lge. qty)
est. £100 – £150
Correspondents include: Lloyd George (infoming Gwyer of his knighthood), Harold Macmillan, Lord Wigram & Lord Hardinge (private secretaries to George V & VI, T.L.s. from Harding thanking the Diocese of George, South Africa for their assurances of loyalty after the bombing of Buckingham Palace), Lord Halifax, Sir John Simon, Sir Samuel Hoare, duplicated photograph of Gandhi etc.
Sir Maurice Gwyer served in many capacities on government commissions and ministries. In 1926 he became Treasury solicitor and King’s proctor and in 1929 became British representative at the conference on the operation of dominion legislation which drafted what became the Statute of Westminster, a title he suggested. Gwyer was appointed Chief Justice of India in 1937 and retired in 1943.