Charles Greenstreet Addison (1 April 1812 – 19 February 1866) was an English barrister and historical, travel and legal writer.

Biography

Addison was born in

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, Kent, the son of William Dering Addison and Susanna Brown Addison. He had an elder brother of the same name (born 1807) who died before he was born. He was

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on 10 June 1842 by the

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, joined the home circuit and Kent sessions; he was a revising barrister for

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. In 1848 he married Frances Octavia, twelfth child of the Honourable James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie, by whom he left seven children.

Works

In 1838 he published ''Damascus and Palmyra'', describing a journey in the

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. He then wrote a ''History of the Knights Templar'',https://vrijewereld.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/charles-g-addison-the-history-of-the-knights-templar-1842.pdf 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 The Temple Church is a Royal peculiar church in the City of London located between Fleet Street and the River Thames, built by the Knights Templar as their English headquarters. It was consecrated on 10 February 1185 by Patriarch Heraclius of J ...

. 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 US.

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* * 1812 births 1866 deaths People from Maidstone English barristers English travel writers English legal writers 19th-century English historians Historians of the Knights Templar {{UK-historian-stub