John Budd Phear

{{Short description|Chief Justice of British Ceylon from 1877 to 1879 and anthropologist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = Sir |name = John Budd Phear |native_name = |native_name_lang = |image =  |alt = |caption = |office = 13th Chief Justice of Ceylon |nominator = |appointer = James Robert Longden |term_start = 18 October 1877 |term_end = September 1879 |predecessor = William Hackett |successor = Richard Cayley ''Harry Dias Bandaranaike as Acting'' |birth_date = {{Birth date|1825|02|09|df=yes}} |birth_place = Earl Stonham, Suffolk, England |death_date = 1890  |death_place = |party = |other_party =  |spouse = Catherine Wreford |partner =  |relations = |children = |alma_mater = |signature = |signature_alt = |website = }}

Sir '''John Budd Phear''' (9 February 1825 - 1905)<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=35502|title=Phear, John Budd|first=Katherine|last=Prior}}</ref> was a judge and author who was the 13th Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was appointed on 18 October 1877 succeeding William Hackett and was Chief Justice until 1879. He was succeeded by Richard Cayley.<ref name=Amerasinghe>{{cite book|last=Amerasinghe|first=A. Ranjit B.|title=The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka : the first 185 years|year=1986|publisher=Sarvodaya Book Pub. Services|location=Ratmalana|isbn=955599000X}}</ref><ref name=JSCS>{{cite web|title=Overview |url=http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en |publisher=Judicial Service Commission Secretariat |access-date=19 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019091817/http://www.jsc.gov.lk/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=47&Itemid=60&lang=en |archive-date=19 October 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Ferguson1996">{{cite book|author=John Ferguson|title=Ceylon in the Jubilee Year|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPDd3IkOrSMC&pg=PA254|access-date=7 January 2013|edition=Repr.|date=1996 |orig-year=1887|publisher=Asian Educational Services|isbn=978-81-206-0963-1|page=254}}</ref> When Phear retired Harry Dias Bandaranaike acted as Chief Justice for 12 days.<ref name=Amerasinghe />

Phear was the eldest of three sons of John Phear, rector of Earl Stonham. One of his brothers, Samuel George Phear, became Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.<ref name="ODNB"/> John Phear also stood as the Liberal parliamentary candidate for Honiton in the reformed 1885 borough elections but ultimately lost to Sir John Kennaway, Conservative candidate and never stood for the seat again.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ah2vCwAAQBAJ&q=honiton+election+1885&pg=PA257 | title=British Parliamentary Election Results: 1885-1918 | first=F. W. S. | last=Craig | year=1974 | publisher=Springer | isbn=9781349022984 | page=257 | access-date=31 March 2019 }}</ref>

==Works== * ''Lecture on the Rules of Evidence in Indian Courts of Law … delivered before the Bethune Society on 8th March, 1866'' J. C. Hay & Co.: Calcutta, 1866. * ''The Hindoo Joint Family. A lecture, etc.'' G. C. Hay & Co.: Calcutta, 1867. * ''Indian Famines and Village Organization. A paper, etc.'' London.-III. East India Association: 1877 * ''The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon.'' London 1880 (Reprint Neu Delhi, 1975) ([http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/phear/Aryan%20Village%20India%20Ceylon.pdf online]; PDF; 8.3 MB) * ''International Trade, and the relation between exports and imports. A paper, etc.'' Macmillan & Co.: London, 1881.

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