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George Edalji
George Ernest Thompson Edalji (March 1876 – 17 June 1953) was a Parsi English solicitor and son of a vicar in a South Staffordshire village who served three years' hard labour after being convicted on a charge of injuring a pony. He was pardoned after a campaign in which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle took a prominent role. The difficulty in overturning the conviction of Edalji was cited as showing a better mechanism for reviewing unsafe verdicts was needed, and was a factor in the 1907 creation of a court of appeal for England. Present-day commentators on the case see it as demonstrating pervasive racial prejudice and resentment toward incomers by highly placed traditionalists in provincial England.
==Background==
Edalji was the eldest of the three children, his mother was Charlotte Edalji (née Stoneham), the daughter of a Shropshire vicar. His father was the Reverend Shapurji Edalji, a convert from a Bombay Parsi family. He had served as the curate in several parishes before being given the living as vicar of St Mark's, Great Wyrley. The right to make this appointment lay with the bishop, the Reverend Edalji obtained the position through the previous incumbent, his wife's uncle, who arranged it as a wedding present. Livings were scarce, conferred valuable emoluments and were much sought after.〔
The Reverend Edalji moved into the vicarage, a large house with its own grounds, in late 1875; George, the first child, was born there soon after. The Reverend Edaji was more assertive than his predecessor and was sometimes involved in controversy about parish business.〔 Many modern writers on the case express the opinion that rural English society was infected with backward racialist attitudes, and that this would have been particularly true of a village like Great Wyrley.〔Christian, Paul (2013), "‘Sherlock Holmes’ and the curious case of Welwyn Garden City man George Edalji," ''Welwyn Hatfield Times'' (online), 17 June, see (), accessed 20 September 2015.〕 An aristocratic former army officer, Captain the Honorable G. A. Anson, was the Chief Constable of Staffordshire during the case. He is widely seen as having expressed a racist attitude toward the Edaljis.〔Costello, Peter (2006). "Persecution of George Edalji," In ''Conan Doyle, Detective,'' pp. 95-132, New York, NY, USA: Carroll & Graf, ISBN 0786718552 and 1472103653, see (), accessed 20 September 2015.〕 〔Kerr, Douglas (2015). ''Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice,'' p. 153, Oxford, GBR: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198728077, see (), accessed 20 September 2015.〕 〔Nash, Jay Robert (2008). ''I Am Innocent!: A Comprehensive Encyclopedic History of the World's Wrongly Convicted Persons,'' Boston, MA, USA: Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306815605, see (), accessed 20 September 2015.〕 〔Anon. (2015). "The George Edalji Case," ''Birmingham City Council'' (online), at Things to do: Libraries; Archives and Heritage, see (), accessed 20 September 2015.〕
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