Joseph Chitty the elder

(1775-1841)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Chitty, Joseph, 1776-1841 DNB: Chitty, Joseph, the elder (1775–1841), barrister and legal writer, LBT ID: JoChitt1841 VIAF ID: 100292131 LOC ID: n85239007	B/BAP: 1775-03-12 DIED: 1841-02-17
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London barrister and legal writer educated at the Middle Temple; Thomas Noon Talfourd was his pupil and Charles Lamb was for a time his neighbour.
REFERENCES TO Joseph Chitty the elder: Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 12 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1833 Found 1: ¶ 1