Men-at-the-Bar/Cookson, Charles Alfred

by Joseph Foster

Cookson, Charles Alfred, C.B. 1881, B.A., Oriel Coll., Oxon, 1855, second delegate on Judicial Reform Commission at Cairo 1880–1, legal adviser in Cyprus, member of the executive council and judicial commissioner 1878–9, consul at Alexandria and judge of H.M.'s chief consular court for Egypt since 1874, vice-consul, law secretary and registrar of the supreme court of the Levant 1869–74, a student of the Inner Temple 28 Jan., 1864 (then aged 33), called to the bar 26 Jan., 1867 (5th son of late Christopher Cookson, of Nowers, Somerset); born ⁠, 1831.