Fitzroy Kelly

Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly (9 October 1796 – 18 September 1880) was an English commercial lawyer, Tory politician and judge.

His mother was the novelist Isabella Kelly, daughter of Captain William Fordyce, Groom of the Privy Chamber to George III.

In 1824, he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn, having already gained a reputation as a skilled special pleader.

[1] Most of his legal cases were of a commercial nature, but one was one of the great criminal poisoning crimes of the early Victorian period.

Tawell had poisoned his mistress, Sarah Hart, and fled from Salt Hill in Aylesbury by train.

Sir Fitzroy Kelly, 1847
Vanity Fair caricature, November 1871
Grave of Sir Fitzroy Edward Kelly in Highgate Cemetery