Sir John Blossett Maule
British barrister and first Director of Public Prosecutions
About Sir John Blossett Maule
Lived 1818 – 1889 (aged 70–71). Sir John Blossett Maule was a British barrister.
Sir John Blossett Maule, QC (1818–1889) was a British barrister who served as the first Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.
Life The second son of the Solicitor to the Treasury George Maule, Esquire, of London, Maule was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the Inner Temple on 13 January 1844, aged twenty-six, was called to the bar on 29 January 1847, and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1866.
Maule served as Recorder of Leeds from 1861 to 1880, when he was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions. was knighted in December 1882, and retired as Director of Public Prosecutions in 1884.
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British barrister and first Director of Public Prosecutions
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Sir John Blossett Maule was born in 1818.
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