Edmund Widdrington Byrne

"Chitty's Leader". Caricature by Spy published in Vanity Fair in 1896. Sir Edmund Widdrington Byrne (30 June 1844 – 4 April 1904) was a British judge and Conservative Party politician.

Life Byrne was born in Islington, London, and was the son of Edmund Byrne, solicitor, and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Cowell. He was educated at King's College London and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1867.

In 1874, he married Henrietta Gulland of Newton Wemyss, Fife. He was elected, and retained the seat with an increased majority at the ensuing election in 1895. This required him to resign his seat in parliament. He was knighted in May of the same year.

He continued to sit at the High Court until shortly before his death at age 59 at his London home, 33 Lancaster Gate, from acute bronchitis and pneumonia. He was buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

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