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Walter Mytton Colvin

1847–1908

Lawyer. LLB, Cambridge, 1870. Admitted to the Middle Temple, 1866; called to the bar, 1871. Practised criminal law in Allahabad; member of the government of India police commission of 1902–3. Knighted, 1904.

Sources

Alum. Cantab.

ODNB s.v. Colvin, Sir Auckland.

Bibliography

Alum. Cantab.: Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. A. Venn. 10 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1922–54.

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.

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