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{{Short description|British judge in India}}
Sir '''Henry Adolphus Byden Rattigan''' (11 October 1864 – 11 January 1920) 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]].<ref name=:1>{{cite web|url=http://sys.lhc.gov.pk/?page_id=58|title=Mr. Justice Sir Arthur Hay Stewart Reid|website=Lahore High Court|access-date=2018-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730102732/http://sys.lhc.gov.pk/?page_id=58|archive-date=2017-07-30|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Biography==
He was born in [[Delhi]], [[British India]], the son of [[William Henry Rattigan|Sir William Henry Rattigan]] and Teresa Higgins.<ref>John F. Riddick, Who was who in British India, Greenwood Press, 1 Jan 1998, p.301</ref> He was educated in [[England]] at [[Harrow School]] and later [[Balliol College, Oxford]]. Thereafter he was [[Call to the Bar|called to the Bar]] at [[Lincoln's Inn]] in 1874.<ref>John F. Riddick, Who was who in British India, Greenwood Press, 1 Jan 1998, p.301</ref>

In 1889, he returned to India and enrolled as an advocate at the Chief Court of the Punjab.<ref>John F. Riddick, Who was who in British India, Greenwood Press, 1 Jan 1998, p.301</ref> In 1900 he was made Legal Remembrancer to the Punjab government.<ref>E.B. Ince, 1920, The Law Journal, Volume 55, p.2727</ref> He served as a Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab from 1909 and in 1917 was made Chief Justice.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sys.lhc.gov.pk/?page_id=58|title=Mr. Justice Sir Henry Adolphus Rattigan|website=Lahore High Court|access-date=2018-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730102732/http://sys.lhc.gov.pk/?page_id=58|archive-date=2017-07-30|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was knighted in 1918 and remained as Chief Justice until 1920 when he died in [[Lahore]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sys.lhc.gov.pk/?page_id=58|title=Mr. Justice Sir Henry Adolphus Rattigan|website=Lahore High Court|access-date=2018-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170730102732/http://sys.lhc.gov.pk/?page_id=58|archive-date=2017-07-30|url-status=dead}}</ref>

He published a number of notable works including ''Tribal Laws of the Punjab'' (1895) and ''Laws of Divorce in India'' (1897).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1300375|title=Harking Back: Rattigan's Sussex cottage and brougham carriage |website=Dawn.com}}</ref> His brother was the first-class cricketer [[Cyril Rattigan|Cyril Stanley Rattigan]], who was killed in action during the [[First World War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=McCrery|first=Nigel|title=Final Wicket: Test and First Class Cricketers Killed in the Great War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6mphCgAAQBAJ|date=30 July 2015|publisher=[[Pen and Sword]]|isbn=978-1473864191|pages=286–7}}</ref>

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