Sir Robert Buckley Comyn (26 October 1792 - 23 May 1853) was a British judge who served as Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1835 to 1842.
(Balliol College, Oxford),[1] vicar of Tottenham and Chaplain of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea,[2] and Harriet Charlotte (née Stables), Comyn was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, then St John's College, Oxford (B.A.
He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn in 1814, and was in practice until his appointment as a puisne judge at Calcutta in 1825.
In 1835, Comyn was appointed Chief Justice of the Madras High Court, and remained in that capacity until his retirement in 1842.
[7] Comyn's sister, Harriet (died 1817), married firstly, Thomas Ainley, of Gloucester, then, as his widow, married in 1814 to John Stracey, of Sprouston Lodge, Norfolk, son of Sir Edward Stracey, 1st Baronet, of Rackheath Hall, Norfolk.