Charles Sprengel Greaves

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Charles Sprengel Greaves MA QC (1802–1881), eldest son of William Greaves MD (1771–1848) of Mayfield, Staffordshire, by his first wife, Anne-Lydia, was born at Burton on 18 July 1802.Rupert Simms. Bibliotheca Staffordiensis. Printed for the compiler by A C Lomax. Lichfield. 1894. [https://archive.org/stream/bibliothecastaff00simm#page/197/mode/1up Page 197].Frederic Boase. "Greaves, Charles Sprengel". Modern English Biography: A – H. Netherton and Worth. 1892. Page 1872. [https://books.google.com/books?id=GIVmAAAAMAAJ]John Burke. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland. Published for Henry Colburn by R Bentley. London. 1834. Volume I. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uo9AAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA386 Page 386]. He entered Rugby School on 18 July 1816Temple, Frederick. Rugby School Register: From 1675 to 1867 Inclusive. Rugby: W Billington. London: Whittaker and Co. 1867. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Sq9DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA75 Page 75]. and matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 27 February 1819, graduating BA on 25 November 1823University of Oxford. A Catalogue of all Graduates. 1851. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ISLtAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA271 Page 271]. (in the lower portion of the second class in classics)The Oxford Ten-Year Book: A Register of University Honours and Distinctions, completed to the End of the Year 1870. Oxford. 1872. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WQgOAAAAYAAJ Page 504]. The abbreviations are explained on page 449. and MA on 13 April 1825. Greaves was called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn on 22 November 1827,James Wishaw. A Synopsis of the Members of the English Bar. Stevens and Sons. A Maxwell. London. 1835. [https://books.google.com/books?id=lGNHAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA57 Page 57]. The listing is explained on pages ix and x. entered the Inner Temple ad eundem in 1828,Joseph Foster. Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. 1887. Volume 2. [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Alumni_Oxoniensis_%281715-1886%29_volume_2.djvu/page175-2502px-Alumni_Oxoniensis_%281715-1886%29_volume_2.djvu.jpg Page 544]. and attended the Oxford Circuit and Gloucester Sessions. He became Queen's counsel on 28 February 1850, but by then he had for many years ceased to practise.(1881) 25 Solicitors Journal and Reporter 622 at 623 [https://books.google.com/books?id=UQY5AQAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.com/books?id=_D44AQAAIAAJ] He became a bencher of Lincoln's Inn on 15 April 1850. He was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for Staffordshire, and also a magistrate for the county of Derby.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6Qk5AQAAMAAJ (1881) 71 Law Times and Journal of Property 105][https://books.google.com/books?id=41USAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA66 Parliamentary Papers] He was the draftsman of the Criminal Procedure Act 1851(1851) 15 Law Magazine (New Series) [https://books.google.com/books?id=hZIDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA226 226]; (1851) 15 Jurist [https://books.google.com/books?id=-WlMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA361 361]; (1948) 63 British Columbia Reports 49 [https://books.google.com/books?id=rzgvAAAAIAAJ]; (1946) 86 Canadian Criminal Cases Annotated 340 [https://books.google.com/books?id=3LQuAAAAIAAJ]; Law Reform Commission of Canada, The Charge Document in Criminal Cases (1987) p 8 [https://books.google.com/books?id=jNO7AAAAIAAJ]. and the Criminal Law Consolidation Acts 1861.R v Burstow, R v Ireland [1998] AC 147 at 234, HL, per Lord Steyn He became a Secretary to the Criminal Law Commission in 1878. He died at 11 Blandford Square, London, on 3 June 1881.

On 11 February 1841 he married Emma Frances TysonSir Bernard Burke. "Greaves, Charles Sprengel" in A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Fifth Edition. Harrison. London. 1871. Volume 1. [https://books.google.com/books?id=161CAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA540 Page 540]. (d. 1880), daughter of William Tyson of Ashbourne by his wife Lucia-Elizabeth.

Greaves edited the third and fourth editions of Russell on Crime and was, in this capacity, "a distinguished writer" on the subject of criminal law.John Hostettler. Criminal Jury Old and New. Waterside Press. 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=UfHa-W4siikC&pg=PA117 Page 117]. He was the author of:

• The Act for Conviction of Juvenile Offenders, 11 Vict. c. 82, London, 1847, 12mo. By 1870, Greaves' Treatise on the Juvenile Offenders Act was not only out of print, but had to some extent been rendered obsolete by the passing of Jervis' and other Acts.Lascelles, Francis Henry. The Laws Affecting Juvenile Offenders. Henry Sweet. London. 1870. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oKtXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR5 Page v].For a review of this book, see "Short Notes of New Books" (1848) Law Magazine, or Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, New Series, volume 8 (Old Series, volume 39) [https://books.google.com/books?id=tylMAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA159 p 159]. For a copy, see [https://books.google.com/books?id=PHhjAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books]. This book is also called Greaves' Juvenile Offenders Act: Law Magazine, New Series, volume 8, [https://books.google.com/books?id=tylMAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA278 p ii].
• Lord Campbell's Acts for the further improving the Administration of Justice, London, 1851, r 8voKirk, John Foster. "Greaves, Charles Sprengel". A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors. J B Lippincott Company. Philadelphia. 1899. Volume 1. [https://archive.org/stream/asupplementtoal00alligoog#page/n723/mode/1up Page 707].
• The Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts of the 24 and 25 of Victoria, London, 1861, 12mo, 2nd ed, 1862, Post 8voFor reviews of this book, see (1861) 37 The Law Times [https://books.google.com/books?id=PMdQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA39 39]; (1863) 15 Law Magazine and Law Review, or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence 179 [https://books.google.com/books?id=8zFMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA179] [https://books.google.com/books?id=nHgvAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA179]; (1862) 6 Solicitors Journal and Reporter [https://books.google.com/books?id=KgU5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA582 582]; The Jurist, (New series) Volume 8, Part 2, (Old series) Volume 26, Part 2, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_uQMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA34 p 34] (25 January 1862)
• The Proper Time for the Publication of Banns of Matrimony, in the Morning Service, London, 1867, 8voFor a review of this book, see (1867) 42 Law Times [https://books.google.com/books?id=-JADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA391 391]. For a copy, see [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z69VAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 Google Books].
• A Review of the Statutes, Rubrics and Cannons relating to Clerical Vestments, London, 1867, 8vo.

Greaves was, with James John Lonsdale, joint author of A Letter to the Lord Chancellor, London, 1854, 8vo.For a copy of this book, see [https://books.google.com/books?id=lhFXAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 Google Books].

Greaves was a man "of high legal attainments"Charles A W Rocher. The Tasmanian Criminal Law Consolidation and Amendment Acts of the 27th Victoria. J. Walch & Sons, Hobart Town and Launceston. Tasmania. Simpkin, Marshall & Co. London. 1864. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pl41AQAAMAAJ Page xi]. and was "known as a gentleman of great learning, ability, and research".R v Curgerwen (1865) LR 1 CC 1 at [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ak8AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA3 3], per Pollock CBCf. Kenny, A Selection of Cases Illustrative of English Criminal Law, Cambridge, 1901, [https://books.google.com/books?id=MFA8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA324 p 324] ("learned"); 30 Journal of the Statistical Society of London [https://books.google.com/books?id=yE0uAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA384 384] ("well known to be a high authority in matters of criminal law")

Greaves was a "splendid polymath".Bernadette McSherry, Alan William Norrie, Simon Bronitt (editors). Regulating deviance: the redirection of criminalisation and the futures of criminal law. Hart. 2009. {{ISBN|9781841138893}}. Page 263. He was an antiquarian.Susan Hueck Allen. Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlík. University of California Press. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rV8vyYn-qMgC&pg=PA66 Page 66]. He was a member of the Archaeological InstituteWalford, Edward. "Greaves, Charles Sprengel". The County Families of the United Kingdom Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Fifth Edition. Robert Hardwicke. London. 1869. [https://books.google.com/books?id=C9EkzFlBgz0C&pg=PA427 Page 427].Proceedings at Meetings of the Royal Archaeological Institute. Volume 37. Issue 1. Page 329. 1 April 1880. C S Greaves Esq QC in the Chair. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00665983.1880.10851956#/doi/abs/10.1080/00665983.1880.10851956 Taylor and Francis Online]. and the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.(1891) Journal of the Derbyshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Volume 13. Page 221. [https://books.google.com/books?id=kmlJAAAAYAAJ]