Sir Victor Murray Coutts-Trotter (12 May 1874 – 12 May 1929) was a British barrister who was Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1924 to 1929.
He worked under Justice Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe as a junior Barrister in the Madras Presidency.
In January 1915 he became a puisne judge of the Madras High Court[5] and was appointed Chief Justice on 3 June 1924.
He was subsequently knighted[6] and resigned in 1929[7] due to ill-health; he died at sea on the journey back to England on his 55th birthday.
[2][8] He had married in 1905, Dorothy Evelyn Mary, daughter of Admiralty clerk George W. Godfrey[9][10] (author of a one-act comic play, "My Milliner's Bill").