Metropolitan Chief Magistrate. Friend and executor of Edward Lear.

From Venn’s

Adm. pens.
at TRINITY, Jan. 28, 1840.
[4th s. of Edmund Henry (1782). B. Jan. 4, 1823.
School, Rugby.] Matric. Easter, 1843; Scholar, 1844; Davies Scholar, 1845; Chancellor's (1st) Classical medal, 1846; B.A. (Senior Classic) 1846; M.A. 1849.
Fellow, 1847.
Adm. at the Inner Temple, Nov. 9, 1849.
Called to the Bar, Jan. 26, 1853.
Member of the Supreme Council of Justice, Ionian Islands, 1855-8. Metropolitan Police Magistrate at Thames Court, 1869-90, at Bow Street, 1890-9; Chief Magistrate at Bow Street, 1899-1901.
Knighted, 1899.
Of Templechurch, Southborough, Kent.
Married, Jan. 21, 1862, Kate Maria, dau. of the Rev. James Morgan, V. of Corston, Somerset.
Died Nov. 10, 1901.
Father of George H. F. (1891) and of the next; brother of the above and of Henry (1828). (Rugby Sch. Reg.; Foster, Men at the Bar; Law Lists; Inns of Court; Burke, L.G.; Fox-Davies, Armorial Families.)