Sir Horace Owen Compton Beasley OBE (2 July 1877 – 1 January 1960)[1][2] was the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1929 to 1937.
[3] The son of Ammon Beasley, general manager of the Taff Vale Railway Company, Owen Beasley was born at Chiswick, and educated at Westminster and Jesus College, Cambridge (B.A.
[4] It was said of him that "the Madras bar never lost faith in his sense of justice and honesty of purpose..." and that he had an "uncompromising sense of duty and utter disregard for personal distinction between lawyers", observing also his "imperial attitude of benevolent despotism".
[5] Beasley served in World War I, first as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, then as a Captain in the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and as a Major in the Labour Corps.
He was married with children, and lived at Bullingham Mansions, Pitt Street, London.