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Adam Bittleston

1817 – 1892

Indian judge

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About Adam Bittleston

Lived 1817 – 1892 (aged 74). Adam Bittleston was a judge and barrister.

Sir Adam Bittleston (12 September 1817 – 18 January 1892) and an official assignee of the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy and his wife, Ann.

Bittleston was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School until 1834, and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1841.

Career Bittleston practised on the Midland Circuit and from 1850, was a revising barrister. In 1858, he was appointed a puisne judge at the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras and therefore, created a Knight Bachelor. After the Indian High Courts Act 1861, Bittleston switched to the new established Madras High Court and served as acting chief justice, in 1866 and 1867. He retired in 1870, and returned to England. who had also made a fortune as a fruiterer supplying to public dinners. Bittleston died in 1892, at Weybridge. Their children included Adam Henry Bittleston, George Hastings Bittleston, John Pattison Bittleston, and Thomas George Bittleston. Colonel George Hastings Bittleston, D.S.O., C.B.E., of Ashleigh, Whitchurch, Devon, late of the Royal Artillery, was father of Mary Katharine, who married Major-General Charles Fullbrook-Leggatt, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.

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Who was Adam Bittleston?

Indian judge (1817–1892)

When was Adam Bittleston born?

Adam Bittleston was born on 12 September 1817.

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Adam Bittleston died on 18 January 1892.

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Adam Bittleston was a judge and barrister.

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· Wikipedia: Adam Bittleston

· Wikidata: Q4678724

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