Sir Colley Harman Scotland (16 June 1818 – 20 January 1903)[2] was the first Chief Justice of the Madras High Court[3] in British India.
Scotland was born in the West Indies, the son of Thomas Scotland, Registrar of Antigua and deputy-paymaster of the British forces in Jamaica, and his wife, Sarah Haverkam.
[4][5] He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1843, and joined the Oxford Circuit.
After the death of Sir Henry Davison, Scotland was in February 1961 appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Madras, receiving at the same time the customary knighthood.
Scotland married in 1854 a daughter of John Joseph Bygrave, but she died after only five years in 1859.