Maurice Gwyer

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Sir Maurice Gwyer (extreme right).

Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer, GCIE, KCB, KCSI, KC (25 April 1878 – 12 October 1952) was Vice-Chancellor of Delhi University (1938–1950), and Chief Justice of India (1937–43). He is credited with having founded the prestigious college Miranda House in the year 1948 in Delhi, India.

Biography

Gwyer was educated at Highgate School from 1887-1892, Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was appointed CB (1921), KCB (1928), KCSI (1935), and GCIE (1948). He became an honorary student of Christ Church (1937), an honorary DCL of Oxford (1939), LLD of Travancore (1943) and Patna (1944), and DLitt of Delhi (1950). He died at his home, 14 Kepplestone, Eastbourne, Sussex, on 12 October 1952, and was buried at St Marylebone cemetery, East Finchley, on 17 October.

Faber and Gwyer

Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929. However, its roots go back further – to The Scientific Press, which was founded in the early years of the 20th century. This last firm was owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer and derived much of its income from the weekly magazine the Nursing Mirror. The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Geoffrey Faber, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and Faber and Gwyer was founded in 1925. After four years, the Nursing Mirror was sold and Geoffrey Faber and the Gwyers agreed to go their separate ways. Searching for a name with a ring of respectability, Geoffrey hit on the name Faber and Faber, although there was only ever one Faber.

Further reading

• Records on Sir Maurice Gwyer are available in the British Library, Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections (previously Oriental and India Office Library) – papers (0304/09)

External links

• Douglas Veale, ‘Gwyer, Sir Maurice Linford (1878–1952)’, rev. S. M. Cretney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006, accessed 11 January 2008
• Works by or about Maurice Gwyer in libraries (WorldCat catalog)