Sir Adam Bittleston (12 September 1817 – 18 January 1892)[1] was a British-born Indian judge.

Early life and education

He was the son of Thomas Bittleston, editor of The Morning Post[2] and an official assignee of the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy and his wife Ann.[1] He was named for his paternal grandfather, surveyor Adam Bittleston, of Maryport, Cumberland (now Cumbria).[3]

Bittleston was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School until 1834 and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1841.[4]

Career

Bittleston practised on the Midland Circuit and from 1850 was a revising barrister.[5] In 1858 he was appointed a puisne judge at the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras and therefore created a Knight Bachelor.[6] After the Indian High Courts Act 1861, Bittleston switched to the new established Madras High Court and served as acting chief justice in 1866 and 1867.[7] He retired in 1870 and returned to England.[8]

Personal life

In 1844, he married Rebecca Ann, eldest daughter of George Hastings Heppel, of Princes Street and Mansion House Street, London, an actuary and former paper mill owner[9] who had also made a fortune as a fruiterer supplying to public dinners.[10][8] Bittleston died in 1892 at Weybridge.[1] Their children included Adam Henry Bittleston, George Hastings Bittleston, John Pattison Bittleston, and Thomas George Bittleston.[11] Colonel George Hastings Bittleston, D.S.O., C.B.E., of Ashleigh, Whitchurch, Devon, late of the Royal Artillery, was father of Mary Katharine, who married Major-General Charles Fullbrook-Leggatt, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C.[12]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hart, Grace (1936). Merchant Taylors' School Register, 1561-1934. Vol. I. Eastern Press Ltd.
  2. ↑ Mirror of Parliament for the second session of the eleventh parliament of Great Britain and Ireland in the fourth year of the reign of King William IV, appointed to meet 3 February 1834, vol. III, ed. John Henry Barrow, 1834, p. 2510
  3. ↑ The County Families of the United Kingdom, fifth edition, Edward Walford, Spottiswoode & Co., p. 91
  4. ↑ Buckland, C. E. (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. pp. 44.
  5. ↑ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. pp. 54.
  6. ↑ Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 119.
  7. ↑ P. O'Sullivan & J. M. C. Mills (1868). Madras High Court Reports: Reports of Cases decided in the High Court of Madras in 1866, 1867 and 1868. Madras: J. Higginbotham. pp. III.
  8. 1 2 Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families. Edinburgh/London: Grange Publishing Works. pp. 100.
  9. ↑ Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, vol. 10, 1863, p. 83
  10. ↑ The Gentleman Magazine, collected vol. XXIII, "Additions to Obituary", June 1845, p. 666
  11. ↑ List of Carthusians 1800 to 1879, ed. W. D. Parish, Charterhouse School, Farncombe & Co. (Lewes), 1879, p. 22
  12. ↑ Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage, ed. Patrick Montague-Smith, Kelly's Directories, 1963, p. 1695
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