John Maule (barrister)

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Sir John Blossett Maule, QC (1818–1889) was a British barrister who served as the first Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales.

Life[]

The second son of the Solicitor to the Treasury , Esquire, of London, Maule was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the Inner Temple on 13 January 1844, aged twenty-six, was called to the bar on 29 January 1847, and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1866.[1][2]

Maule served as Recorder of Leeds from 1861 to 1880, when he was appointed as Director of Public Prosecutions.[1] He was Treasurer of his Inn for 1881-1882, was a member of the Council of Legal Education,[3] was knighted in December 1882,[1] and retired as Director of Public Prosecutions in 1884.[3]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c Joseph Foster, Men-at-the-bar: a Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc. (London: Reeves and Turner, 1885), p. 72
  2. ^ Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography: I–Q (1897), p. 801.
  3. ^ a b The Law Times, vol. 87 (1889), p. 425
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