QBO - Bolton Borough Quarter Sessions

The Borough of Bolton, as incorporated in 1838, was granted a separate Court of Quarter Sessions on 9th May 1839. The jurisdiction of the Court was limited to the confines of the Borough as originally incorporated and as extended in 1872, 1877 and 1898.

Owing to a prolonged dispute concerning the validity of the Borough Charter the Court transacted virtually no business between January 1840 and October 1842. During that period, and in the years before 1839, cases from Bolton were usually heard by the Lancashire County Quarter Sessions, held by adjournment for the Hundred of Salford, at Salford or Manchester. Records of the Lancashire County Court of Quarter Sessions are available at the Lancashire Record Office, Bow Lane, Preston. 

The following have been recorders of Bolton:

Robert Baynes Armstrong Q.C. - May 1839 - May 1865

John Archibald Russell Q.C. - Jun 1865 - May 1869

Samuel Pope Q.C. - Mar 1869 - Jul 1901

William Francis Kyffin Taylor K.C. - Aug 1901 - Oct 1903

Collingwood Hope K.C. - Oct 1903 - Oct 1925

Joseph Cooksey Jackson K.C. - Oct 1925 - Apr 1938

Frederic Aked Sellers K.C. - Jun 1938 - Feb 1946

Ronw Moelwyn Hughes K.C. - May 1946 - Jul 1953

Daniel James Brabin Q.C. - Nov 1953 - Feb 1962

Alexander David Karmel Q.C. - May 1962 - Feb 1968

Alfred Kenneth Hollings M.C., Q.C. - Feb 1968 - Oct 1968

Griffith Winston Guthrie Jones Q.C. - Nov 1968 - Dec 1971