Donald Falshaw

Sir Donald James Falshaw (22 January 1905 – 1984) was a British administrator and judge in India. A member of the Indian Civil Service, he continued his career in India after its independence in 1947, eventually becoming the first Chief Justice of the Punjab High Court in 1966 when it was renamed as Punjab and Haryana High Court.

He was the very last British judge who did not become an Indian citizen to serve in India.

Biography

Falshaw was born in Morecambe, Lancashire. He was educated at Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1928.

On 15 May 1966, he became the last British judge to have served in India as the same day he sailed for the United Kingdom and resigned from his post as chief justice of Punjab & Haryana High Court.

Falshaw was knighted in 1967.