{{Short description|Armenian-Indian barrister and legal scholar (1844–1920)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Aviet Agabeg | birth_date = 29 August 1844 | birth_place = Kolkata, India | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1920|09|04|1844|08|29}} | death_place = London, England | alma_mater = St John's College, Cambridge | notable_works = ''Harris's Criminal Law'' | occupation = Barrister | spouse = Edith Wynne }}
'''Aviet Agabeg''' (29 August 1844 - 4 September 1920) was an Armenian-Indian barrister and legal scholar.<ref name="ACAD">{{cite web |title=Agabeg, Aviet |url=https://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=agabeg&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50 |website=ACAD – A Cambridge Alumni Database |publisher=venn.lib.cam.ac.uk}}</ref><ref name="InnerTemple">{{cite web |title=Agabeg, Aviet |url=https://archives.innertemple.org.uk/names/1eb6bbbe-7acd-439e-98a8-afc5ca5f7578 |website=Inner Temple Admissions |publisher=Inner Temple |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref name="Menatthebar">{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=Men-at-the-bar: a biographical hand-list of the members of the various Inns of Court, including Her Majesty's judges, etc. |date=1885 |publisher=London |page=3 |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924096849850/page/n37/mode/2up}}</ref> He was one of the first Asian barristers to be called to the bar in England and Wales and the first to be called by the Inner Temple,<ref>{{cite web |title=The admission of overseas students to the Inner Temple in the 19th century {{!}} The Inner Temple |url=https://www.innertemple.org.uk/who-we-are/history/historical-articles/the-admission-of-overseas-students-to-the-inner-temple-in-the-19th-century/ |website=www.innertemple.org.uk}}</ref> and he was editor of ''Harris's Principles of the Criminal Law'', which was a leading<ref>{{cite book | last = Ringrose | first = C. W. | date = 1962 | title = Where to Look for Your Law | edition = 14th | location = London | publisher = Sweet & Maxwell }}</ref> textbook on English criminal law.
== Early life and education ==
Agabeg was born into the Armenian diaspora in India in Kolkata on 29 August 1844. He was admitted as a pensioner at St John's College, Cambridge on 4 October 1862, and he graduated LL.B. in 1867.<ref name="ACAD" /> He was admitted as a member of the Inner Temple in 1864 and called to the bar in 1868.<ref name="InnerTemple" />
== Career ==
Agabeg was a member of the Northern Circuit, practicing from chambers in London. He was noted for being a special pleader and conveyancer who practiced before the High Courts at Kolkata and Yangon.<ref name="Menatthebar" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Lynch |first1=David |title=Northern Circuit Directory 1876-2004 |date=2005 |publisher=Bluecoat Press |isbn=978-1-904438-24-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/northerncircuitd0000lync/page/172/mode/2up}}</ref><ref name="wifeobit">{{Cite journal|date=30 January 1897|title=Obituary: Madame Edith Wynne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VW1CAQAAMAAJ&q=Sarah+Edith+Wynne&pg=PA100|journal=Musical News|volume=12|pages=100}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The law list : being a list of the judges and officers of the different courts of justice; counsel, special pleaders, draftsmen, conveyancers, attorneys, notaries, &c., in England and Wales |date=1907 |publisher=London : Stevens and Norton |url=https://archive.org/details/lawlist00unkngoog/page/2/mode/2up}}</ref>
He was joint editor of ''Bills of Exchange Act 1882: With Explanatory Notes and Decisions'' (1883),<ref>{{cite book |last1=Agabeg |first1=Aviet |last2=Barry |first2=William F. |title=The Bills of Exchange Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 61): With Explanatory Notes and Decisions |date=1883 |publisher=W. Clowes and Sons, Ltd |location=London}}</ref> and editor of the third to fifth editions of ''Harris's Principles of the Criminal Law'' (1884–1889).<ref>{{cite book |last=Agabeg |first=Aviet |title=Principles of the criminal law |edition=3rd |year=1884 |publisher=Stevens & Haynes}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Agabeg |first=Aviet |title=Principles of the criminal law |edition=4th |year=1886 |publisher=Stevens & Haynes | url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32437000243648&seq=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Agabeg |first=Aviet |title=Principles of the criminal law |edition=5th |year=1889 |publisher=Stevens Haynes}}</ref>
== Personal life and death == Agabeg married the Welsh operatic soprano and concert singer Edith Wynne in 1875.<ref>{{Cite news|date=20 November 1875|title=Marriage of Miss Edith Wynne|page=8|work=Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser|url=https://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/4581870/4581878|access-date=24 May 2020|via=Papurau Newydd Cymru}}</ref> They had two daughters, Isabel Myfanwy, who became a musician in adulthood,<ref>{{Cite ODNB|title=Wynne, (Sarah) Edith (1842–1897), singer|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-101317|last=Griffiths|first=Rhidian|year=2011|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/101317}}</ref> and Gwladys Edith Victoria, who died soon after birth in 1878. His wife died on 24 January 1897, aged 54.<ref name="wifeobit" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Rees|first=Thomas Mardy|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ&q=Sarah+Edith+Wynne&pg=PA450|title=Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index|date=1908|publisher=Herald Office|pages=450|language=en}}</ref>
He died in London on 4 September 1920.
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