Background
Brandt was eldest son of the Review Francis Brandt, rector of Aldford, Cheshire, 1843-1850, who died in 1870, and Ellinor, second daughter of Nicholas Grimshaw of Preston, Lancashire.
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Francis Brandt
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He was educated at Macclesfield grammar school, entered at the Inner Temple in 1839, and practised for some years as a special pleader.
Career
Called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 30 April 1847, he took the North Wales and Chester circuit. He was a successful and popular leader of the Chester and Knutsford sessions, had a fair business in London, especially as an arbitrator or referee, was one of the revising barristers on his circuit, and was employed for many years as a reporter for the Times in the common pleas. About 1864 he was offered and declined an Indian judgeship.
In his earlier days he was a writer in magazines and in Bell"s Life.
The first of his books appeared in 1857, and was entitled Habet! a Short Treatise on the Law of the Land as it affects Pugilism, in which he attempted to show that prize-fighting was not of itself illegal. His next work was a novel called Frank Morland"s Manuscripts, or Memoirs of a Modern Templar, 1859, which was followed by Fur and Feathers, the Law of the Land relating to Game, &c., 1859, Suggestions for the Amendment of the Game Laws, 1862, and Games, Gaming, and Gamesters" Law, 1871, a book of considerable legal and antiquarian research, which reached a second edition
He died at his chambers, having suffered much from a neuralgic complaint, and was buried at Christ Church, Todmorden. Brandt was never married.
Membership
He was a zealous and efficient member of the Inns of Court Rifle Corps.
