John Stark (otherwise described as James Stark by Burke and others[1]) (born 5 May 1798) was a Scottish lawyer who became the ninth Queen's Advocate of Ceylon.
Born in Kirkcudbright, he passed the Scottish bar examination in 1824 and served as a lawyer in Edinburgh, becoming the Ruling Elder of the city's Council and First Bailie of the city. On 10 December 1838, he was appointed Queen's Advocate of Ceylon to succeed William Ogle Carr, a position by which he was also a member of the island's executive and legislative councils. He held the office until 1840, when he was raised to join Carr as a puisne judge of the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Oliphant,[2] being succeeded as Advocate by Arthur William Buller.[3]
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