Samuel Bristowe

Samuel Boteler Bristowe QC (5 October 1822 – 5 March 1897)[1] was an English barrister and Liberal Party politician from Nottinghamshire.

[2] He became a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1872, and was a member of the Council for Legal Education[5][6] as well as being one of the editors of "Burn's Justice of the Peace".

[7] After his election, he resigned his post as Recorder of Newark[2] but became a bencher of his inn and Queen's Counsel in 1872.

After his defeat in Newark, Bristowe still had time to be selected a few days later as a Liberal candidate for the Southern division of Nottinghamshire,[10] where he duly stood.

[10] The plaintiff, William Edward Arnemann, who lived in Nottingham, had previously been prosecuted for falsely advertising himself as a dentist.

[10] After court sittings, Bristowe routinely left Nottingham on the 5.40pm Great Northern train to return to his home at West Hallam in Derbyshire, and on this occasion was followed unobserved by Arnemann, who bought a ticket to the same destination and followed the judge onto the platform.