Adam Bittleston

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

He was the son of the journalist Thomas Bittleston and his wife Ann, who worked for The Morning Post.[1] Bittleston was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School until 1834 and was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1841.[2] He practised in the midland ciruit and from 1850 was a revising barrister.[3] In 1858, he was appointed a puisne judge at the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras and therefore created a Knight Bachelor.[4] 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 the following year.[5] He retired in 1870 and returned to England.[6]

In 1844, he married Rebecca Ann, eldest daughter of George Hastings Heppel.[6] Bittleston died in 1892 at Weybridge.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Hart, Grace (1936). Merchant Taylors' School Register, 1561-1934. vol. I. Eastern Press Ltd.
  2. ↑ Buckland, C. E. (1906). Dictionary of Indian Biography. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co. p. 44.
  3. ↑ Walford, Edward (1860). The County Families of the United Kingdom. London: Robert Hardwicke. p. 54.
  4. ↑ Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 119.
  5. ↑ P. O'Sullivan and 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.
  6. 1 2 Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1895). Armorial Families. Edinburgh/London: Grange Publishing Works. p. 100.
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