He was the son of Humphry Cornewall Woolrych and Elizabeth, elder daughter of William Bentley of Red Lion Square, London, and was born at Southgate, Middlesex, on 24 September 1795.
[1] Woolrych lived at Croxley Green, where his father had bought an estate and at 9 Petersham Terrace, Kensington.
[1] Woolrych as serjeant-at-law wrote about the degree, soon to be abolished:[1] His legal textbooks and tracts were: Woolrych also wrote:[1] He published in 1842 a second edition of Charles Penruddocke's Short Analysis of the Criminal Law of England, was a contributor to the Globe and Traveller, and read papers to the Law Amendment Society.
His third daughter, Anna Maria Raikea, married, on 2 July 1862, John James Stewart Perowne.
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