William Fry Channell

Sir William Fry Channell (31 August 1804 – 26 February 1873) was a judge and Baron of the Exchequer.

His father was from Devon and had served in the Royal Navy under Admiral Nelson during the Battle of Copenhagen (1801).

In 1844, when Sir Frederic Thesiger became solicitor-general, Channell received a patent of precedence and later led the Home circuit.

He died a month later, on 26 February 1873, at his home, 2 Clarendon Place, Hyde Park Gardens and was buried in a family grave on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.

[2] He married Martha Hawkes in 1834 and they had a son, Arthur Moseley Channell (1838–1928), who was a noted rower and High Court judge, a daughter, Gertrude, and two other children, who died in infancy.