Charles Austin (lawyer)

Charles Austin, QC (1799–1874) was an English barrister. A leader of the parliamentary bar, he was prominent in the Railway Mania of the later 1840s. According to Patrick Polden, his "career ridiculed the noble ideals of the bar".

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