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Darwin Correspondence Project

Edward Chitty

1804–63

Legal reporter. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1829. Went to Jamaica in 1840. Author, in addition to several works on equity law, of The fly-fisher’s text book (1841), written under the pseudonym Theophilus South.

Source

DNB.

Bibliography

DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.

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