Henry Charles Coote

Henry Charles Coote (1815–1885) was an English lawyer and antiquarian.

Life He was son of the civil lawyer Charles Coote. Admitted a proctor in Doctors' Commons in 1840, he practised in the probate court for 17 years; and when the court was thrown open to the whole legal profession in 1857, became a solicitor.

Coote travelled in Italy, he was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a founder of the Folklore Society, and a contributor to learned periodicals. Attacked by paralysis in 1882, he died 4 January 1885, and was buried at Kensal Green.

Coote's other writings were:

Practices of the Ecclesiastical Courts, with Forms and Tables of Costs, 1846. The Common Form Practice of the Court of Probate in granting probates … with the New Act (20 & 21 Vict. c. 77), 1858; 2nd edition (with Thomas Hutchinson Tristram's Practice of the Court in Contentious Business) 1859; 9th edition 1883. Practice of the High Court of Admiralty, 1860; and 2nd edition 1869.

He was a frequent contributor to the Folklore Quarterly Journal.