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.
[1][2][3] He entered Rugby School on 18 July 1816[4] and matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford on 27 February 1819,[1] graduating BA on 25 November 1823[5] (in the lower portion of the second class in classics)[6] and MA on 13 April 1825.
[5] Greaves was called to the bar by the Society of Lincoln's Inn on 22 November 1827,[7] entered the Inner Temple ad eundem in 1828,[8] and attended the Oxford Circuit and Gloucester Sessions.
[7] He became Queen's counsel on 28 February 1850,[1] but by then he had for many years ceased to practise.
[1][21] Greaves was a man "of high legal attainments"[22] and was "known as a gentleman of great learning, ability, and research".