Sir Edward East, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Hyde East, 1st Baronet (9 September 1764 – 8 January 1847) was a British Member of Parliament, legal writer, and judge in India.

Hyde East owned a number of plantations at the behest of the King – George IV Prince Regent in Jamaica along with the people on them.

In 1813 East was chosen to succeed Sir Henry Russell as chief justice of the supreme court at Fort William, Bengal.

Besides performing his judicial duties, he interested himself in Indian education, and was the chief promoter of the Hindu College.

East represented Winchester in parliament from 1823 to 1831, was sworn of the Privy Council, and appointed a member of the judicial committee of that body, in order to assist in the disposal of Indian appeals.

East is known as a legal writer mainly for his Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Bench from Mich.

They were continued by East alone in his Reports of Cases argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench from Mich.