Addison, Charles G.

Charles Greenstreet Addison (died 1866) was an English barrister and historical, travel and legal writer.

[edit] Life

He was the son of W. Dering Addison, of Maidstone. He was elected to the bar in 1842, joined the home circuit, and was a revising barrister for Kent. In 1848 he married Frances Octavia, twelfth child of the Honourable James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie, by whom he left seven children.

[edit] Works

In 1838 he published Damascus and Palmyra, describing a journey in the Middle East. He then wrote a History of the Knight Templars, the first two editions of which appeared in 1842 and a third in 1852. In 1843 he published another historical work on the Temple Church. He was best known as the author of two legal text-books, a Treatise on the Law of Contracts, 1845, and Wrongs and their Remedies, a Treatise on the Law of Torts, 1860, which went through several editions in the UK and USA.

[edit] References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Addison, Charles Greenstreet". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900​. London: Smith, Elder & Co.