Francis Frederick Brandt (1819, Gawsworth Rectory,

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– 6 December 1874, 8 Figtree Court,

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) was an

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and

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. Brandt was eldest son of the Rev. Francis Brandt, rector of

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, 1843–50, who died in 1870, and Ellinor, second daughter of Nicholas Grimshaw of

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. He was educated at Macclesfield grammar school, entered at the

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in 1839, and practised for some years as a

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. Called to the bar at the

on 30 April 1847, he took the North Wales and Chester circuit. He was a successful and popular leader of the Chester and Knutsford sessions, had a fair business in London, especially as an arbitrator or referee, was one of the revising barristers on his circuit, and was employed for many years as a reporter for the ''

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'' in the common pleas. About 1864 he was offered and declined an Indian judgeship. In his earlier days he was a writer in magazines and in ''

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''. The first of his books appeared in 1857, and was entitled ''Habet! a Short Treatise on the Law of the Land as it affects Pugilism'', in which he attempted to show that prize-fighting was not of itself illegal. His next work was a novel called ''Frank Morland's Manuscripts, or Memoirs of a Modern Templar'', 1859, which was followed by ''Fur and Feathers, the Law of the Land relating to Game, &c.'', 1859, ''Suggestions for the Amendment of the Game Laws'', 1862, and ''Games, Gaming, and Gamesters' Law'', 1871, a book of considerable legal and antiquarian research, which reached a second edition. He died at his chambers, having suffered much from a neuralgic complaint, and was buried at Christ Church,

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. He was a zealous and efficient member of the Inns of Court Rifle Corps. Brandt was never married.

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