John Maule (barrister)

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Sir John Blossett Maule,

QC (1818–1889) was a British barrister who served as the first Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales
.

Life

The second son of the

Queen's Counsel in 1866.[1][2]

Maule served as

knighted in December 1882,[1] and retired as Director of Public Prosecutions in 1884.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Joseph Foster, Men-at-the-bar: a Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc. (London: Reeves and Turner, 1885), p. 72
  2. Modern English Biography: I–Q
    (1897), p. 801.
  3. ^ a b The Law Times, vol. 87 (1889), p. 425
Preceded by
New office
 Director of Public Prosecutions
1880–1884 		Succeeded by
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