Fortescue-Brickdale, Charles, Sir, 1857-1944
FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE, SIR CHARLES, eldest son of Matthew Inglett Fortescue-Brickdale (qv); b. 1 Mar 1857; adm. 16 Jun 1870 (James'); QS 1871; one of the founders of The Elizabethan in 1874, designing its original headpiece, and also an illuminated school prayer book, which he presented “curae monitorum” (Elizabethan, I, 63, and xvii, 192); left (with Triplett) Whitsun 1875; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 20 May 1875; BA 1879; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 2 May 1877, called to bar 17 Nov 1883; Assistant barrister, Land Registry Office 1888, Assistant Registrar 1894, Registrar and Chief Registrar 1900-23; knighted 1 Jan 1911; JP Gloucestershire; a Busby Trustee from 16 May 1916; author, various publications on transfer of land; m. 5 Sep 1888 Mabel Beatrice, eldest dau. of George Louis Monck Gibbs, Bramley, Surrey; d. 20 Sep 1944.