Claudius James Erskine
1821–93
Civil servant in India. Private secretary to the governor of Bombay, 1843; secretary, judicial department of Bombay, 1854; director of public instruction, Western India, 1855–9; high court judge, Bombay, 1862–3; member of the Bombay Council, 1865. Retired because of ill health in 1867. Son of Maitland and William Erskine.
Sources
DNB and ODNB s.v. Erskine, William (1773–1852)
Modern English biography
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
