John Edmund Wentworth Addison was a British judge and Conservative politician.
Occupation
politician, judge, barrister
Position held
member of the 25th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 24th Parliament of the United Kingdom, member of the 23rd Parliament of the United Kingdom
John Edmund Wentworth Addison (5 November 1838 – 22 April 1907) was a British judge and Conservative politician.
Early life
Addison was born in 1838 in Bruges, Belgium and was the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Robert Addison and his second wife, Grace Barton. Colonel Addison was born in India of Irish ancestry and after retiring from the army wrote a number of musical plays and light operas. Addison was educated at Trinity College Dublin before being called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1862.
Career
Addison practised in the Northern circuit and in 1880 became a Queen's Counsel (QC). In 1873 he married Alice McKeand of Manchester, who predeceased him in 1894. In 1874 he was appointed Recorder of Preston, a position he held for sixteen years. In 1889 Addison was the senior prosecuting counsel in the celebrated trial of Florence Maybrick.
