{{Short description|English lawyer}} {{about||his son, the English barrister and politician|Christopher William Puller}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Christopher Puller | image = | alt = | caption = | other_names = | occupation = Lawyer and judge | birth_date = {{birth year|1774}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1824|5|26|1774|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_place = | father = Richard Puller | education = {{ubl|Christ Church, Oxford|Inner Temple}} | children = Christopher William Puller }} '''Sir Christopher Puller''' (1774 – 26 May 1824) was an English lawyer who was briefly Chief Justice of Bengal.<ref name="DNB">{{cite DNB|wstitle=Puller, Christopher|volume=47}}</ref>
==Life== He was born the son of London merchant Richard Puller and educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1795, and was elected a fellow of Oriel College. He studied law at the Inner Temple and was called to the bar in 1800. He then moved in 1812 to Lincoln's Inn, where he was elected a bencher in 1822.<ref name="DNB"/>
He appeared for the prosecution in the 1812 trial of William Booth for forgery.<ref name="Booth">{{cite Wikisource |title=The Trial, at Large, of William Booth, and His Associates, George Scot, the Three Yates's, John Barrows, and Elizabeth Childlow, for Forgery, Coining, &c. at The Stafford Summer Assizes, 1812 |last=Anon. |date=1812 |location=Wolverhampton |publisher= Gower and Smart |wslink=The Trial, at Large, of William Booth and his Associates }}</ref> Booth was sentenced to hang.<ref name="Booth" />
In his early career Puller worked as a law reporter with Sir Justice John Bernard Bosanquet. In 1823 he accepted the post of Chief Justice at the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William, Calcutta and received the customary knighthood. However, like his predecessor Sir Robert Henry Blosset, he died there within a few months of starting his judicial duties.<ref name="DNB"/>
==Family== Puller married Louisa King, daughter of Joseph King of Taplow, and niece of Daniel Giles of Youngsbury, Hertfordshire. Christopher William Puller, Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire, was their son.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=22882|first=Jeanne|last=Potier|title=Puller, Sir Christopher}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=E. Walford|title=The county families of the United Kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=psgIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA251|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=978-5-87194-361-8|page=251|year=1882}}</ref>
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