Sir Raymond West was a barrister King's Inns Dublin 1871, Puisne Judge of the High Court of Bombay, 1873–87; President of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vice Chancellor of the University of Bombay, also acted as Procureur-General in Egypt 1884; member of the Government of Bombay 1887–92; Reader in Indian Law, Cambridge University.