William Comer Petheram

Sir William Comer Petheram KC (1835 – 15 May 1922)[1] was the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court and Vice Chancellor of University of Calcutta.

In 1862 he was qualified as Special Pleader and passed from Middle Temple in 1869.

Petheram first served as Chief justice of Allahabad High Court in 1884 to 1886[5] then became the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court on 24 March 1886 after Sir Richard Garth[6] and retired in November 1896.

[2] [8] In 1864, he wrote a book named The law and practice relating to discovery by interrogatories under the Common law procedure act, 1854.

[9][10] He presided over the first seditious libel case in colonial india.