Charles Beavan (1805-1884) was a British barrister and
law reporter.
He was born in March 1805, the son of Hugh Beavan of
Llowes, Radnorshire and educated at
Aldenham and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, commonly known as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348 by Edmund Gonville, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and ...
, graduating 22nd wrangler in 1829, B.A. in 1829, and M.A. in 1832. He became a barrister of the
Middle Temple
The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court entitled to Call to the bar, call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple (with whi ...
on 25 June 1830, and a bencher on 6 May 1873. He practised in Chancery courts and was an official examiner of
Court of Chancery
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from June 1866 to January 1884 when that office was abolished. He was author of ''Reports of cases in Chancery argued and determined in the Rolls Court'' (1840–69), published in 36 volumes, the longest series of authorized reports ever published.
[ Frederic Boase. Modern English Biography. Volume 1. Page 213]
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He died at 91 St. George's Road, Pimlico
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, London on 18 June 1884.[ On 21 June 1884, the '' Solicitors Journal'' said that Beavan 'might probably claim the distinction of being in legal circles and publications the "most mentioned" man of his day'.
Beavan's Reports are reprinted in volumes 48 to 55 of the English Reports. They have also been reproduced in ]microform
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. The Law Times published a digest of these reports. Beavan's report are often abbreviated as ''Beav'' when cases are cited in later rulings.
The National Portrait Gallery has a photograph of Beavan taken in the 1860s by Leonida Caldesi. Beavan had one son, Charles Albert Beavan.[Foster. "Beavan, Charles Albert". Men at the Bar. 2nd Ed. 1885. p 30.]
References
Further information
*Charles Shaw. "Beavan, Charles" The Inns of Court Calendar: A Record of the Members of the English Bar. Butterworths. Fleet Street, London. 1877
Page 65
The Middle Temple Bench Book
* The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn. 1896. Volume 2. Page 223
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*John Venn and J A Venn (eds). "Beavan, Charles". Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge University Press. 1940. Reprinted 2011. Volume 2 (1752-1900). Part 1
Page 208
*John Venn. "Beavan, Charles". Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349-1897. Volume 2 (1713–1897). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. C J Clay and Sons, London. Glasgow. 1898
Page 191
*"Legal Obituary of the Quarter" (1884) 9 Law Magazine and Review (Fourth Series) 47
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*"Obituary" (1884) 19 The Law Journal 396 (21 June
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* Edward Walford, "Legal Obituary" (1884) 77 The Law Times 170 (28 June
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*"Obituary" (1884) 28 Solicitors Journal 601, see also page 173 Google Books
*(1984) 128 Solicitors Journal 428 (reprint of article of 21 June 1884
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*"Will of Mr Beavan" (1884) 19 The Law Journal 578 (27 September)
*"Wills and Bequests" (1884) 85 Illustrated London News 26
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*"Charles Beavan and His Reports" in "Our Literary Column" (1927) 163 Law Times 49
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*(1922) 57 The Law Journal 41
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*(1938) 185 The Law Times 23
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*(1903) 37 The Law Journal 35
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*Owen Hood Phillips. A First Book of English Law. Fourth Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. 1960. Pages 159, 162 and 165.
*"Appointments & Promotions" (1866) 1 The Law Journa
312
(8 June)
*"Appointments" (1866) 41 The Law Time
545
(9 June)
*John Charles Fox. "Beavan". Handbook of English Law Reports. Butterworth & Co. London. 1913. Pages 58 to 60
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*Van Vechten Veeder
"The English Reports 1292-1865. II."
(1901) 15 Harvard Law Review 109 at 116; reprinted at 2 Select Essays in Anglo American Legal History 123
*Julius J Marke (ed), A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University with Selected Annotations, Law Center of New York University, 1953, Library of Congress Catalog card 58-6489, Reprinted by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (Union, New Jersey) 1999
p 31
*"Law Reports" 1 Law Chronicl
35
*"The Law and the Lawyers" (1872) 54 The Law Time
107
(14 December)
*"Beavan's Reports and the Council of Law Reporting" (1865) 10 Solicitors' Journal & Reporte
161
(23 December)
*Samuel Austin Allibone. "Beavan, Charles". Critical Dictionary of English Literature. J B Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia. 1871. Volume 1
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* Marvin's Legal Bibliographybr>104Beavan, Charles 1805-1884
WorldCat Identities.
*Charles Beavan. Ordines Cancellariae. 1842
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Supplement. 1845.
*William George Thorpe. The Still Life of the Middle Temple: With Some of Its Table Talk. Richard Bentley and Son. 1892. Page 356
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*Arthur Robert Ingpen (ed). Master Worsley's Book on the History and Constitution of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Chiswick Press. 1910. Page 329
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1805 births
1884 deaths
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Members of the Middle Temple
19th-century English lawyers