Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Runnington, Charles
RUNNINGTON, CHARLES (1751–1821), serjeant-at-law, born in Hertfordshire on 29 Aug. 1751 (and probably son of John Runnington, mayor of Hertford in 1754), was educated under private tutors, and after some years of special pleading was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in Hilary term 1778. He was made serjeant-at-law on 27 Nov. 1787, and held for a time the office of deputy-judge of the Marshalsea court. On 27 May 1815 he was appointed to the chief-commissionership in insolvency, which he resigned in 1819. He died at Brighton on 18 Jan. 1821. Runnington married twice—in 1777, Anna Maria, youngest sister of Sir Samuel Shepherd, by whom he had a son and a daughter; secondly, in 1783, Mrs. Wetherell, widow of Charles Wetherell of Jamaica. His only son, Charles Henry Runnington, died on 20 Nov. 1810.
Runnington, besides editing certain well-known legal works [see Gilbert, Sir Geoffrey, where for ‘Remington’ read Runnington; Hale, Sir Matthew, ad fin; Ruffhead, Owen], was author of ‘A Treatise on the Action of Ejectment’ (founded on Gilbert's work), London, 1781, 8vo, which was recast and revised as ‘The History, Principles, and Practice of the Legal Remedy by Ejectment, and the resulting Action for Mesne Profits,’ London, 1795, 8vo; 2nd edit. by William Ballantine, 1820.
[Law List, 1779; London Gazette, 27 Nov. 1787, 27 May 1815; Gent. Mag. 1787 ii. 1119, 1810 ii. 591, 1815 i. 561, 1821 i. 87; Ann. Reg. 1821, App. to Chron. p. 230; Law Mag. xxv. 289; Georgian Era, ii. 544; Haydn's Book of Dignities, ed. Ockerby; Brit. Mus. Cat.]