Charles Leete Attenborough
English barrister and judge (1853–1937)
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Charles Leete Attenborough (12 January 1853 - 6 March 1937) was an English solicitor and barrister, judge, and legal scholar.[1][2]
Charles Leete Attenborough | |
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| Born | 12 January 1853 |
| Died | 7 March 1937 (aged 84) |
| Notable work | Harris's Criminal Law |
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 twelfth 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]