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.[1]
He was born in Delhi, British India, the son of Sir William Henry Rattigan and Teresa Higgins.[2] He was educated in England at Harrow School and later Balliol College, Oxford. Thereafter he was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1874.[3]
In 1889, he returned to India and enrolled as an advocate at the Chief Court of the Punjab.[4] In 1900 he was made Legal Remembrancer to the Punjab government.[5] He served as a Judge of the Chief Court of the Punjab from 1909 and in 1917 was made Chief Justice.[6] He was knighted in 1918 and remained as Chief Justice until 1920 when he died in Lahore.[7]
He published a number of notable works including Tribal Laws of the Punjab (1895) and Laws of Divorce in India (1897).[8] His brother was the first-class cricketer Cyril Stanley Rattigan, who was killed in action during the First World War.[9]