Charles Leete Attenborough

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Charles Leete Attenborough
Born(1853-01-12)12 January 1853
Died7 March 1937(1937-03-07) (aged 84)
Notable work Harris's Criminal Law

Charles Leete Attenborough (12 January 1853 - 6 March 1937) was an English solicitor and barrister, judge, and legal scholar. [1] [2]

Attenborough was admitted as a solicitor in 1875 and then called to the bar by Inner Temple in 1891. [3] He practiced on the Midland Circuit from chambers in the Temple, London. [4] From 1892 to 1912 he wrote the sixth to twelth editions of Harris's Principles of the Criminal Law . [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] He was an alderman of Middlesex and chairman of the county licensing committee, and from 1918 to 1936 he was the Recorder of Great Grimsby. [1] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Obituary: Charles Leete Attenborough (The Times, 9 March 1937)". The Times.
  2. 1 2 "Attenborough, Charles Leete, (12 Jan. 1853–6 March 1937), JP; Recorder of Great Grimsby, 1918–36". Who Was Who. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U205462.
  3. "Calls to the Bar". The Times. 12 April 1891.
  4. The law list : being a list of the judges and officers of the different courts of justice; counsel, special pleaders, draftsmen, conveyancers, attorneys, notaries, &c., in England and Wales. London: Stevens and Norton. 1907.
  5. Attenborough, Charles L. (1892). Harris's Principles of the criminal law (6th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.
  6. Attenborough, Charles L. (1896). Harris's Principles of the Criminal Law (7th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.
  7. Attenborough, Charles L. (1899). Harris's Principles of the criminal law (8th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.
  8. Attenborough, Charles L. (1901). Harris's Principles of the Criminal Law (9th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.
  9. Attenborough, Charles L. (1904). Harris's Principles of the criminal law (10th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.
  10. Attenborough, Charles L. (1908). Harris's Principles of the criminal law (11th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.
  11. Attenborough, Charles L. (1912). Harris's Principles of the criminal law (12th ed.). Stevens & Haynes.