Andrew Scoble

Sir Andrew Richard Scoble, KCSI, PC, KC (1831–17 January 1916) was an English lawyer, politician and judge.

His father was John Scoble, an English Congregational minister and later Canadian politician who was active in the British abolitionism movement from the 1830s to the 1850s, including assisting the integration of escaped American slaves into Canada.

[4] In his capacity as Advocate General, he led the prosecution in a notable state trial of Malhar Rao, Gaekwar Bahadur of Baroda, who was charged with attempting to poison the British Resident, Colonel Robert Phayre.

[5] From 1886 to 1891, Scoble was law member of the Council of the Governor-General of India and was responsible for introduction of the Age of Consent Act, 1891 in the house which eventually paved the way for the age of consent for sexual intercourse for all girls, married or unmarried, to be raised from ten to twelve years in all jurisdictions, its violation subject to criminal prosecution as rape.

[2] In 1886, Scoble stood unsuccessfully for the Conservative Party in a by-election in the constituency of Hackney South, coming in second, behind the Liberal candidate, Sir Charles Russell.