Grimwood Mears
Sir Edward Grimwood Mears (21 January 1869 - 20 May 1963) was a British barrister, who gave up his practice at the bar to work on the Committee on Alleged German Outrages, which looked at the 1914-15 German atrocities in Belgium. He was appointed secretary of the Dardanelles Commission in return for a knighthood, worked on the reply to the The German White Book, and in 1916 was part of the Royal Commission on the Easter Rising in Ireland. In 1919, Mears was appointed chief justice of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, India. Early life and family Edward Grimwood Mears was born on 21 January 1869, the only son of William Mears of Winchester. He graduated from Exeter College, University of Oxford, in 1893 and two years later was called to the bar at the Inner Temple. In 1896, he married Annie, daughter of G. P. Jacob of Bryngoleu, Shawford. They had a son, Brigadier-General Gerald Grimwood Mears and a daughter, Isabel, whose son was the noted gastroenterologist, Alex Paton. After the death of his wife Annie in 1943, Mears in 1951 married her cousin, Margaret Tempest, an author and illustrator of children's books. First World War At