A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices/Brett, Thomas

by John Hutchinson

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Admitted 23 May, 1866.

Second son of the Rev. Wills Hill Brett, of Kirkcubbin, co. Down. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1863. At the Middle Temple he obtained the first certificate of honour in 1869, and graduated LL.B. at London University the same year. He was called to the Bar 17 Nov. 1869.

He was joint author, with Mr. Clerke, of a treatise on The Conveyancing Acts, 1881 and 1882, and sole author of a work on the Bankruptcy Act, 1883, of Leading Cases in Equity (1887), and of Commentaries on the Present Laws of England (1890). He died 22 July, 1893, aged 53.