Arthur Richard Jelf

{{Short description|British judge (1837–1917)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = Arthur Richard Jelf, Vanity Fair, 1904-05-19.jpg

| caption = Caricature by Leslie Ward, from Vanity Fair, May 19, 1904.

| name = Sir Arthur Jelf

| office = Justice of the High Court

| termstart = 1901

| termend = 1910

| education = Eton College
Christ Church, Oxford

| predecessor = Sir John Day

| successor = Sir Montague Lush

| birth_name = Arthur Richard Jelf

}}

Sir Arthur Richard Jelf (10 September 1837 in Pankow, near Berlin – 24 July 1917 in Putney) was an English judge.

He was the son of the Rev. Richard William Jelf, principal of King's College, London, by his wife Countess Emmy Schlippenbach, at one time maid of honour to the queen of Hanover. He was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1860. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in April 1863, became a Q.C. in 1880, and was elected a Bencher of his Inn in 1883.{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=The new judge |date=30 October 1901 |page=7 |issue=36599}}

In 1883, Jelf, Sir William Lancaster, and Baron Pollock founded the Putney School of Art and Design.{{cite web|title=Blue Plaques Scheme|url=http://www.putneysociety.org.uk/blueplaquesbroch22mar.pdf|work=Putney Society|accessdate=30 March 2014}}

From 1879 to 1901, he was recorder of Shrewsbury, and in November 1901 was raised to the bench as a justice of the High Court of Justice{{London Gazette |issue=27372 |date=5 November 1901 |page=7144}} and knighted.{{London Gazette |issue=27376 |date=12 November 1901 |page=7291}}

He resigned in 1910 and died in 1917.