Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe KC (3 March 1873 – 20 April 1931)[2] was a British barrister and Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1921 to 1924.
His paternal grandfather, Salis (born Solomon ben Elias) Schwabe (1800–1853), of Crumpsall House, Manchester, and Glyn Garth, Anglesey, formerly of Rhodes House, Middleton, was a successful calico printer of Jewish origin who was born in Ovelgönne (near Oldenburg), first settled in Glasgow in 1817, then moved to Rhodes (near Manchester) in 1832 and converted to the Anglican Church, ten years later to Unitarianism.
1894), Schwabe was called to the Bar from the Inner Temple 26 January 1897, and entered the Northern Circuit.
[9] Schwabe also served as a captain in the 19th Volunteer Battalion, London Regiment during the First World War.
George Fearnley-Whittingstall, J.P., of Watford and Hawkswick, Herts., later Mrs Cecil John Thornhill.