{{Short description|British judge and writer (1813–1886)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}} {{Use British English|date=November 2018}} '''Sir Joseph Arnould''' (12 November 1813 – 16 February 1886)<ref name = Browning&Domett/> was a writer and English judge who worked in [[British India]].
==Life== Born at [[Camberwell]], he was the only son of Dr. Joseph Arnould and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Baily.<ref name = Browning&Domett>{{cite book | editor = Frederic G. Kenyon | title = Robert Browning and Alfred Domett | url = https://archive.org/details/cu31924013443779 | date = 1906 | publisher = Smith, Elder & Co. | location = London | pages = [https://archive.org/details/cu31924013443779/page/n42 21]–27 }}</ref> He was the great-uncle of the actor, [[Laurence Olivier]]. He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]]<ref name = MiddleTemplers/> and then [[Wadham College, Oxford]], where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1836.<ref name = Dod/> Five years later, Arnould was called to the bar by the [[Middle Temple]].<ref name = Dod>{{cite book | last = Dod | first = Robert P. | title = The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland | date = 1860 | publisher = Whitaker and Co. | location = London | page = 93 }}</ref> For some time he wrote articles for the [[Daily News (UK)]] and in 1848 he published his first book.<ref name = Browning&Domett/> Arnould was appointed puisne judge at the [[Supreme Court of Judicature at Bombay]] in 1859, whereas he was created a [[Knight Bachelor]].<ref name = Dod/> In 1862, as the [[Bombay High Court]] was inaugurated, he became one of its first judges.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://bombayhighcourt.nic.in/libweb/judges/SirJosehArnould.html | title = Bombay High Court, Official Website - Judges | access-date = 3 August 2008 }}</ref> Arnould presided in the 1862 [[Maharaj Libel Case]]<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1080/00856401.2015.1050161|title=How to Defame a God: Public Selfhood in the Maharaj Libel Case|journal=South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies|volume=38|issue=3|pages=387–402|year=2015|last1=Scott|first1=J. Barton|hdl=1807/95441|s2cid=143251675|url=https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/95441/5/2015-Scott-How_to_Defame_a_God.pdf|hdl-access=free}}</ref> and the 1866 [[Aga Khan case]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Daftary | first = Farhad | title = Mediaeval Isma'ili History and Thought | publisher = Cambridge University Press | isbn = 0-521-00310-5 | date = 2001 | page = 277 }}</ref> and retired three years later in 1869.<ref name = Browning&Domett/>
A close friend of the poet [[Robert Browning]], he won himself the [[Newdigate Prize]], awarded by the [[University of Oxford]] in 1834.<ref>{{cite book |author=Boyd Litzinger |author2=Donald Smalley | title = Richard Browning: The Critical Heritage | date = 1995 | publisher = Routledge | isbn = 0-415-13451-X | page = 93 }}</ref> During his time with the Middle Temple, Arnould befriended also and shared rooms with [[Alfred Domett]].<ref>{{cite book | editor = Valentine Cunninghame | title = The Victorians: An Anthology of Poetry & Poetics | publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | isbn = 0-631-19916-0 | date = 2000 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/victoriansanthol0000unse/page/313 313] | url = https://archive.org/details/victoriansanthol0000unse/page/313 }}</ref> In January 1841, he married Maria, daughter of H. G. Ridgway. She died in 1859 and Arnould married a second time in the following year.<ref name = Browning&Domett/> Arnould lived at White Cross House in [[Winterbrook]], near [[Wallingford, Oxfordshire|Wallingford]] in [[Berkshire]] (now [[Oxfordshire]]). During his retirement, he moved to Italy and died at [[Florence]] on 16 November 1886.<ref name = MiddleTemplers>{{cite book | last = Hutchinson | first = John | title = A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars | isbn = 1-58477-323-5 | location = Clark, New Jersey | publisher = The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. | date = 2003 | page = 6 }}</ref>
The Arnould Scholarship at the [[University of Bombay]] was named in his honour.<ref name = MiddleTemplers/>
==Family== He was married twice: first, in 1841, to Maria, eldest daughter of H. G. Ridgeway; and, secondly, in 1860, to Ann Pitcairn, daughter of Major Carnegie, C.B.{{sfn|Rae|1901}}
==Works== *''Law of Marine Insurance'' (1848) *''The Judgement in the Khoja Case'' (1866) *''Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman, Formerly Lord Chief Justice of England'' (1873)
==References== {{reflist|2}} ;Attribution {{DNBSupp|wstitle=Arnould, Joseph |first=William Fraser|last=Rae|authorlink=William Fraser Rae}}
==External links==
* {{cite book |last1=Hutchinson |first1=John |title=A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices |date=1902 |publisher=the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple |location=Canterbury |page=6 |edition=1 |chapter=[[s:A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Arnould, Sir Joseph|Arnould, Sir Joseph]]}}
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