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Edward Chitty (1804-63)
The third son of Joseph Chitty the elder, he was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1829, and practised as an equity draughtsman. In 1840 he went to Jamacia and was there for many years as a Judge. He returned to England, and died at Walham Green on 28 September 1863.
He published a series of reports of cases in bankruptcy with Edward Deacon, beginning in 1833, and with Basil Montagu in 1839. Besides his share in Deacon & Chitty he was the author of:
- Chitty’s Equity Index (1831), which reached a third edition in 1853, and a fourth in 1883;
- an Index to Common Law Reports (with Francis Forster) in 1841; and
- the Commercial and General Lawyer (2nd edit. 1839).
An amateur conchologist Edward collected land snails in Jamaica with C.B. Adams; named 100 new spieces of terrestrials from Jamaica; collection left to the British Museum Natural History
Scientific Publications
- 1853. Chitty, E. Descriptions of thirty supposed new species and varieties of land and fluviatile shells of Jamaica, with observations on some shells al- ready described. Contributions to Conchology [series 2] no. 1: 1-19.
- 1857. Chitty, E. On Stoastomatidae as a family, and on seven proposed new genera, sixty-one new spe- cies, and two new varieties from Jamaica. Pro- ceedings of the Zoological Society of London 25: 162-201.
- 1857. Chitty, E. On the Jamaican Cyclotus, and the description of twenty-one proposed new species and eight new varieties of that subgenus from Jamaica. – Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 25: 142-157.
Named after E. Chitty
He also published the Fly-Fisher’s Text Book (1841) under the pseudonym of Theophilus South.
https://www.conchology.be/?t=9001&id=15724
Joseph Chitty (1775 –1841)
An English lawyer and legal writer,he was author of some of the earliest practitioners’ texts and founder of an important dynasty of lawyers.
He was himself the son of Joseph Chitty (1729–1795), and his wife, Sarah Cartwright. He initially practised as a special pleader before being called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1816. He never became a KC but built a huge junior practice at 1 Pump Court and published many books.[1]
Chitty was also pupil master to a generation of lawyers, including Thomas Starkie; Edward Hall Alderson; Thomas Noon Talfourd; and Henry Havelock.[4]
The Inns of Court were then in decline and Chitty organised lectures and moots, in 1810 being given permission to use the hall of Lincoln’s Inn.[1]
Despite his successful practice, Chitty had amassed extensive debts by 1831 which were costing almost GBP2,000 per year to service. Further, Chitty’s health was in decline and he was becoming increasingly anxious about his parlous state. Much of his energy became taken up in avoiding the attentions of his creditors. He retired from practice in 1833 but continued to publish. He died in London.[1]
He married Elizabeth Woodward, and they had eight children. Of those, Joseph Chitty the younger, Thomas Chitty, Edward Chitty, and Tompson Chitty were lawyers and legal writers.[1] The judge Joseph William Chitty was a son of Thomas Chitty. Chitty on Contracts is one of the leading textbooks on English contract law. The textbook is now in its 34th edition. The first editors were Joseph Chitty the Younger and Thompson Chitty (1815-1863), sons of Joseph
Sir Joseph William Chitty (1828-1899)
The son of Joseph @ Chitty (1802-1878) and Eliza Cawston (1805-18885) he was an outstanding cricketer, rower, judge and politician!
He linked two of the leading English legal Families by marrying Clara Jessie Pollock, the daughter of Chief Baron Pollock in 1858.
The Chitty Baronetcy, of The Temple,
This is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 25 January 1924 for the lawyer and legal writer Sir Thomas Chitty. He was Master of the Supreme Court from 1900 to 1920 and Senior Master of the Supreme Court and King’s Remembrancer from 1920 to 1926 as well as managing editor of Halsbury’s Laws of England. Chitty was the grandson and namesake of the lawyer and legal writer Thomas Chitty and the nephew of the lawyer Sir Joseph Chitty.
Chitty Baronets, of The Temple (1924)
- Sir (Thomas) Henry Willes Chitty (1855–1930), 1st Baronet
- Sir (Thomas) Henry Willes Chitty, 2nd Baronet (1891–1955)
- Sir Thomas Wiles Chitty (1926-2914) 3rd Baronet/ Not a lawyer but an author using the name Thomas Hinde
Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 1st Baronet (1855–1930)
A British barrister, legal scholar and judge. The son of Thomas Edward Chitty and Mary Ann Willes he was born 24 June 1855.
- Married, firstly, Emily Eliza Newbolt, daughter of Reverend H. F. Newbolt, on 21 December 1888.
- Married, secondly, Beatrice Maud Hale, daughter of Reverend Edward Hale, on 1 September 1904.
- Died on 15 February 1930 at age 74.1
- Admitted to Inner Temple in 1877 entitled to practise as a barrister.
- Managing editor of Lord Halsbury’s Laws of England.
- Editor-in-chief of the English and Empire Digest.
- Master of the Supreme Court between 1901 and 1920.
- Appointed Knight in 1919.
- Ceated 1st Baronet Chitty, of the Temple [U.K.] on 25 January 1924.
- Bencher of the Inner Temple in 1925.
- Appointed King’s Counsel (K.C.) in 1927.
Children of Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 1st Bt. and Emily Eliza Newbolt
- Diana Willes Chitty
- Elizabeth Willes Chitty
- Sir Thomas Henry Willes Chitty, 2nd Bt. b. 30 Jul 1891, d. 26 Feb 1955
- Robert Michael Willes Chitty b. 13 Oct 1893, d. 5 Feb 1970
From 1901-20 he was the Master of the Lings Bench Division, High Court of Justice. From 1920-6 he was the Kings Remembrances, the oldest judicial position in continual existence.
Chitty, Thomas Willes; Williams, John Herbert; Chitty, Hebert, eds. (1896). A Selection of Leading Cases on Various Branches of the Law (10th ed.). London: Sweet and Maxwell.
Thanks to Wikipedia for this information.
Thomas Henry Willes Chitty, 2nd Bt.
Thomas Henry Willes Chitty, 2nd Bt. was born on 30 July 1891. He was the son of Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 1st Bt. and Emily Eliza Newbolt.[1]
He married Ethel Constance Gladstone (daughter of Samuel Henry Gladstone and Katharine Maud Wathen) on 4 January 1922. They had 3 children.
He graduated with a Master of Arts (M.A.).
He was admitted to Inner Temple entitled to practice as a barrister.
Thomas succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Chitty, of the Temple [U.K., 1924] on 15 February 1930.
Children of Robert Michael Willes Chitty and Norah Cooke
- Norah Elizabeth Willes Chitty+2 b. 20 Nov 1926, d. 1 Jan 2000
- Thomas Michael Willes Chitty+2 b. 2 Jun 1930
Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (1926-2014),
He was also known as Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
Thomas Hinde was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, and educated at Winchester School and University College, Oxford. After service in the Royal Navy, he worked briefly for the Inland Revenue and then for the Shell Petroleum Company, before becoming a full-time writer. He became the 3rd bart on the death of his father in 1955.
His first novel, Mr Nicholas, was published in 1953. His second, Happy As Larry, the story of a disaffected, unemployable, aspiring writer with a failed marriage, led critics to associate him with the Angry Young Men movement.[2] An excerpt from Happy As Larry appeared in the popular paperback anthology Protest: The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men.[3]
Hinde published thirteen further novels before turning to non-fiction. Since 1980, he has published books on English stately homes and gardens, English court life, and the forests of Britain, as well as histories of English schools.
And in the USA:
Judge William Lemon Chitty
WM. LEMON CHITTY OF PIONEER FAMILY HERE DIES IN WEST – Was son of a Prominent Pioneer Metamora Attorney, Judge Chas. H. Chitty – Mrs. Eleanor Chitty Farrar of 1118 1/2 Pine Street, South Pasadena. Calif., sends the following communication to the Herald.
I believe the enclosed account of my uncle, William L. Chitty, may be of interest to some of your readers, though there cannot be very many who will remember the family. My mother, Persis Chitty Stowell, was the eldest child of Judge and Mrs. Charles H. Chitty. She is buried in the family lot in Oakwood Cemetery, Metamora with her parents and five brothers and sisters.
William Lemon Chitty, last remaining member of a pioneer Metamora family died June 23 in a sanitaruim in Palmdale, Calif., after a lingering illness. He was the youngest child of Judge Charles H. Chitty and his wife, Rebecca Wing Lemon, and was born in Metamora March 10, 1866.
Mr. Chitty received his education in the Metamora schools, the University of Illinois and Harvard, then practiced law in Chicago prior to going to Washington where he was an attorney in the government service for some twenty years. In 1924, being then in failing health and partially blind, he came to Los Angeles and continued practice until his increasing blindness forced him into retirement in 1942. His only child, William Campbell Chitty, was killed in 1942, and his wife, Mary Helen Chitty, died Feb., 20, 1953.
Judge Charles H. Chitty’s days as a lawyer in Metamora go back to Lincoln’s time as a practicing lawyer in the old Metamora courthouse. Judge Chitty’s law office was the study place of local law students aspiring for admittance to the Illinois bar. Among those who finished their law course under him were later Judges Samuel S. Page and George T. Page, Wm. L. Ellwood and others.
Metamora Herald 3 July 1953 -(autoreverse originally shared this on 01 Jun 2010)