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Edmund Humphrey Woolrych (c.1806-28 January 1883) was a barrister and public servant. The son of Josiah Woolrych, he entered the Middle Temple in 1836 and was called to the bar in 1839. In 1849 he was appointed secretary to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. When that body was abolished and replaced the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1856, Woolrych became the first clerk to the board. In October 1859 Woolrych suggested that the board needed a full-time legal officer and asked to be appointed "Counsel and Legal Advisor of the Board". He was eventually appointed to the office of "Standing Counsel".

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  • Edmund Humphrey Woolrych (c.1806-28 January 1883) was a barrister and public servant. The son of Josiah Woolrych, he entered the Middle Temple in 1836 and was called to the bar in 1839. In 1849 he was appointed secretary to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. When that body was abolished and replaced the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1856, Woolrych became the first clerk to the board. In October 1859 Woolrych suggested that the board needed a full-time legal officer and asked to be appointed "Counsel and Legal Advisor of the Board". He was eventually appointed to the office of "Standing Counsel".
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  • Edmund Humphrey Woolrych (c.1806-28 January 1883) was a barrister and public servant. The son of Josiah Woolrych, he entered the Middle Temple in 1836 and was called to the bar in 1839. In 1849 he was appointed secretary to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. When that body was abolished and replaced the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1856, Woolrych became the first clerk to the board. In October 1859 Woolrych suggested that the board needed a full-time legal officer and asked to be appointed "Counsel and Legal Advisor of the Board". He was eventually appointed to the office of "Standing Counsel". In March 1861 he was appointed a police magistrate and resigned from his post with the Metropolitan Board. He sat as a Metropolitan Police Magistrate at the Westminster Police Court until he retired in 1879. He then moved to Brighton on the Sussex coast.
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