Henry Adolphus Rattigan


Sir Henry Adolphus Byden Rattigan was a barrister and judge in British India. He served as the Chief Justice of the Chief Court of the Punjab, which became the Lahore High Court.

Biography

He was born in Delhi, British India, the son of Sir William Henry Rattigan and Teresa Higgins. He was educated in England at Harrow School and later Balliol College, Oxford. Thereafter he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1874.
In 1889, he returned to India and enrolled as an advocate at the Chief Court of the Punjab. In 1900 he was made Legal Remembrancer to the Punjab government. He served as a Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab from 1909 and in 1917 was made Chief Justice. He was knighted in 1918 and remained as Chief Justice until 1920 when he died in Lahore.
He published a number of notable works including Tribal Laws of the Punjab and Laws of Divorce in India.