Sir Elijah Impey

(1732-1809)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Impey, Elijah, Sir, 1732-1809 NRA: Impey Sir Elijah (1732-1809) Knight Chief Justice of Bengal DNB: Impey, Sir Elijah (1732–1809), judge in India LBT ID: ElImpey1809 VIAF ID: 73846445 LOC ID: no92008536	B/BAP: 1732-06-13 DIED: 1809-10-01
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A classmate of Warren Hastings, he was chief justice of Bengal (1774-89), unsuccessfully impeached in the House of Commons (1783).
REFERENCES TO Sir Elijah Impey: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 56 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) ELIJAH BARWELL IMPEY Found 3: ¶ 5 ¶ 10 ¶ 12 BEAU BRUMMELL Found 1: ¶ 14