Charles Sprengel Greaves

Charles Sprengel Greaves MA QC (1802–1881), eldest son of William Greaves MD (1771–1848) of Mayfield, Staffordshire, by his first wife, Anne-Lydia, was born at Burton on 18 July 1802. He entered Rugby School on 18 July 1816 and matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 27 February 1819, (in the lower portion of the second class in classics) and MA on 13 April 1825. entered the Inner Temple ad eundem in 1828, and attended the Oxford Circuit and Gloucester Sessions. He became a bencher of Lincoln's Inn He was the draftsman of the Criminal Procedure Act 1851 and the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861. He became a Secretary to the Criminal Law Commission in 1878. He died at 11 Blandford Square, (d. 1880), He was the author of: The Act for Conviction of Juvenile Offenders, 11 Vict. c. 82, London, 1847, 12mo. Lord Campbell's Acts for the further improving the Administration of Justice, London, 1851, r 8vo The Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts of the 24 and 25 of Victoria, London, 1861, 12mo, 2nd ed, 1862, Post 8vo The Proper Time for the Publication of Banns of Matrimony, in the Morning Service, London, 1867, 8vo A Review of the Statutes, Rubrics and Cannons relating to Clerical Vestments, London, 1867, 8vo.

Greaves was a man "of high legal attainments" and was "known as a gentleman of great learning, ability, and research".

Greaves was a "splendid polymath". He was an antiquarian. He was a member of the Archaeological Institute and the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.