Arthur Moseley Channell

Sir Arthur Moseley Channell (13 November 1838 – 4 October 1928) was an English rower and High Court judge.

Early life Channell was the son of William Fry Channell of Hyde Park Gardens, who was later Baron Channell, of the Court of Exchequer. He was educated at Harrow School and admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge on 24 October 1856. A noted oarsman, Channell won the Colquhoun sculls in 1860.

In 1861, he won the Magdalene Silver Oars. With First Trinity Boat Club he won the Grand Challenge Cup and Ladies' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta. He was runner up in Silver Goblets and lost the Wyfold Challenge Cup to Woodgate's Brasenose crew.

Legal career

Channell was admitted at the Inner Temple on 24 January 1859 and was called to the bar in 1863.

He tried Richard Archer Prince for the murder of the actor William Terriss in 1898. The jury found Prince guilty but insane, and he was sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum.

Personal life

In 1865 Channell married Beatrice Ernestine, daughter of Captain Alexander Wadham Wyndham; they had a son and two daughters. Beatrice died in 1871. In 1877 he married Constance Helena, daughter of the barrister Walter Blackett Trevelyan, they had four sons and a daughter.

Channell was an experienced yachtsman and lived at Falmouth, Cornwall. He died there aged 89.