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