Sturges, Decimus
- First name(s)
- Decimus
- Surname
- Sturges
- Position(s) held at King's College London Ref: *6
Evening Classes Lecturer 'History & Geography of England' (1863-64)
Education & professional details
- School, college and/or university attended Ref: *5
Kings College School (1851-1854), Modern History Scholar (1855); King's College, University of London (1856-1860); Articled as Clerk to Queens Bench Attorney Charles Edward Jones of St Mildred's Court (1st April 1857); Council of Legal Education exams passed (1861)
- Qualifications Ref: *4
BA, LL.B
- Position(s) held (non King's College London) Ref: *7
Member of Convocation, University of London
- Professional activities Ref: *8
Member of Lincoln's Inn. Called to the degree Barrister-at-Law 1863. Chambers at 11 Old Square and also at 4 Old Buildings/Old Square.
- Publications Ref: *9
Contributor to 2nd edition of Henry Tyrwhitt Frend & Titus Hibbert Ware 'Precedents of conveyances and other instruments relating to the transfer of land to railway companies'. London, William Maxwell, 1866;
Personal details
- Date of birth Ref: *1
- 23rd May 1837
- Place of birth Ref: *2
- Paddington, Middlesex
- Date of death
- 27th April 1892
- Place of death Ref: *3
- 11 Waterloo Place, Leamington, Warwick
- Obituary Ref: *11
- " This Morning's Obituary...STURGES - Mr Decimus Sturges, of Chancery Bar, died at his residence this morning..."
- [note: his residence was 19 Durham Villas, Kensington but he died in Leamington - mistaken reporting]
- Family details Ref: *10
Son of John Sturges, corn merchant, of 35 Connaught Square, London; siblings: Rev William Sturges, Devonport; Louisa Sturges; Rev Simon Sturges, Vicar of Wargrave, Berks; Rev Edward Sturges Rector of Kencott, Oxon; Rev Arthur Smith Sturges; Octavius Sturges (physician); married Emma Gray in 1862; children: Maud E (b1863), Ethel M (b1867), Mary Kate (b1869) and Helen Mary (b1871)
Notes
- 1856 Passport application
- 1886 Wife advertises for a Farmhouse on Dartmoor or comfortable furnished lodgings in North Devon for Aug-Sep
- 1891 Seeks election to the Bar Committee
- 1892 Saturday 7 May Funeral at St Mary's Wargrave, Berks.Decimus Sturges is buried in the churchyard there (with his wife, in 1931).
- He and other members of the family had shares in Great Western Railway
* References
- King's College London School Pupils 1831-1866; baptism record St Mary's Church, Marylebone 1st November 1837
- Census 1861, 1871 and 1881) death certificate 1892 Warwick Vol 6D; National Probate Calendar 1892 p53
- National Probate Calendar 1892 p53
- Daily News 5th November 1856 p2; London Daily News 28th July 1859 p2; University of London Historical Record 1836-1912 p410
- King's College London Schools Pupils 1831-66; Morning Post 7th May 1857 p3; Morning Post 19th October 1859 p1; www.ulrls.lon.ac.uk General Register Part II p154; Morning Post 1860 May 10 p6; Dublin Evening Mail 11th November 1861
- Islington Gazette 23rd October 1858 p1, Registers of Articles of Clerkship and Affadavits of Due Execution (CP 71) National Archives, Kew
- King's College LondonSchool Pupils 1831-1866
- Electoral Register 1835 Holborn, borough of Finsbury; Dublin Evening Mail 11th November 1861; Northampton Mercury 31st January 1863 p3, Morning Advertiser 27th January 1863 p5; Kelly's Directory 1869 p399; Post Office London Directory 1869 p1280; Electoral Register 1873 Finsbury, ward of Furnivals Inn; London Evening Standard 1892 Apr 29 p1 (funeral)
- British Library Main Catalogue, Lincoln's Inn Library Catalogue, London Daily News 20th April 1866 p5
- Census 1851 pc1467, f332, p18; marriage record BMD 1862 Kensington Vol 1A Page 170, Morning Post 14th July 1862 p8; King's College London Schools Pupils 1831-66; marriage of Mary Kate Sturges to William Latham Q.C.Lincoln's Inn, Reading Mercury 5th August 1893 p5; Census 1881 Pc 27 f96 p40
- Pall Mall Gazette 27th April 1892 p6; (16) Index to Register of Passport Applications 1856; Exeter & Plymouth Gazette 29th April 1886 (holiday); Manchester Times 22nd May 1891 p6 (election to Bar Committee); London Evening Standard 29th April 1892 p1 (funeral); Great Western Railway Shareholders 1835-1932;
