Camille Caillard

Camille Felix Désiré Caillard (12 September 1822 – 1 May 1898) was a British barrister and County Court judge from 1859 until 1897.

Biography The only son of Camille Timothée Caillard, a French cavalry officer, Caillard was educated privately before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1845. He was appointed to the county court bench in 1859 by Lord Chelmsford, which provoked accusations of favouritism as Caillard was "a man nobody knew". Succeeding Joseph Grace Smith, he sat for Circuit No. 52, which included Bath and Swindon. On his retirement in 1897, he was the longest serving county court judge.

Personal life Caillard married Emma Louisa (1827–1865), daughter of Vincent Stuckey Reynolds of Taunton, in 1850. She was a first cousin of Benjamin Disraeli. By her he had at least four sons and five daughters. In 1861 at Wingfield in west Wiltshire, within reach of Bath; the house had earlier been owned by his predecessor, Joseph Smith.