Thomas Hutchinson Tristram, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Thomas Hutchinson Tristram
- Thomas Hutchinson Tristram KC DCL (25 September 1825 – 8 March 1912) was an English lawyer. Tristram was the second son of the Rev.
- Henry Baker Tristram, vicar of Eglingham; the geologist and naturalist Henry Baker Tristram was his elder brother.
- Tristram was educated at Durham School and matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford on 11 November 1843.
- He was a Crewian Exhibitioner from 1843 to 1851 and Boden Sanskrit Scholar in 1848.
- He graduated as a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1850 and a Doctor of Civil Law in 1854. Tristram entered the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar of Doctors' Commons on 21 November 1855.
- He joined the Northern Circuit and was later appointed Judge of the Consistory Court of London.
- He was Chancellor of the Dioceses of London, Hereford, Ripon, Wakefield and Chichester, and Commissary-General of the Diocese of Canterbury.
- He was author of a Treatise on the Contentious Probate Practice in the High Court of Justice.
- His chambers were at 12 King's Bench Walk.
- On 21 March 1881 he was made a Queen's Counsel. On 26 October 1861 Tristram married Flora, younger daughter of the Very Rev.
- Thomas John de Burgh, Dean of Cloyne, by his wife Lady Annie-Louisa, sister of John Hely-Hutchinson, 3rd Earl of Donoughmore; they had two sons and two daughters.
- Tristram lived variously at Dalton Hill, Albury, Surrey, at Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's Park, London, and at The Elms, London Road, Hampton. A motion to dissolve the society of Doctors' Commons was entered on 13 January 1858 and the last meeting took place on 10 July 1865.
- The fellows did not formally surrender their offices, nor in the end their charter, but the society perished with the death of Tristram, its last fellow.
- The buildings of Doctors' Commons were sold in 1865 and demolished soon after.
- The site is now largely occupied by the Faraday building.
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