Edward Chitty

Edward Chitty (1804–1863) was an English legal reporter, judge in Jamaica, and conchologist.

The third son of Joseph Chitty the elder, he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1829, and practised as an equity draughtsman.

[2] He published a series of reports of cases in bankruptcy with Edward Deacon, beginning in 1833, and with Basil Montagu in 1839.

Besides his share in Deacon & Chitty he was the author of: He also published the Fly-Fisher's Text Book (1841) under the pseudonym of Theophilus South.

[4] His Jamaican work on snails (on which he had also written with C.B.Adams[5]) was published as On the Jamaican Cyclotus, and Descriptions of Twenty-one proposed New Species and Two New Varieties of that Subgenus from Jamaica and On Stoastomidae as a family and on seven proposed new genera, sixty-one new species,, and two new varieties from Jamaica.