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Charles Greenstreet Addison (1 April 1812 – 19 February 1866) was an English barrister and historical, travel and legal writer.
Addison was born inMaidstone, 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.[1] He wascalled to the bar on 10 June 1842 by theInner Temple,[2] joined the home circuit and Kent sessions;[3] he was arevising barrister forKent. In 1848 he married Frances Octavia, twelfth child of the Honourable James Wolfe Murray, Lord Cringletie, by whom he left seven children.
In 1838 he publishedDamascus and Palmyra, describing a journey in theMiddle East. He then wrote aHistory of the Knights Templar, the first two editions of which appeared in 1842 and a third in 1852. In 1843 he published another historical work on theTemple Church. He was best known as the author of two legal text-books, aTreatise on the Law of Contracts, 1845, andWrongs 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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