Thomas Hutchinson Tristram

Thomas Hutchinson Tristram KC DCL (25 September 1825 – 8 March 1912) was an English lawyer.

Tristram was the second son of the Rev. Henry Baker Tristram, vicar of Eglingham; the geologist and naturalist Henry Baker Tristram was his elder brother. Tristram was educated at Durham School and matriculated at Lincoln College, Oxford on 11 November 1843. He was a Crewian Exhibitioner from 1843 to 1851 and Boden Sanskrit Scholar in 1848. He graduated as a Bachelor of Civil Law in 1850 and a Doctor of Civil Law in 1854.

Tristram entered the Inner Temple and was called to the Bar of Doctors' Commons on 21 November 1855. He joined the Northern Circuit and was later appointed Judge of the Consistory Court of London. He was Chancellor of the Dioceses of London, Hereford, Ripon, Wakefield and Chichester, and Commissary-General of the Diocese of Canterbury. He was author of a Treatise on the Contentious Probate Practice in the High Court of Justice. His chambers were at 12 King's Bench Walk. On 21 March 1881 he was made a Queen's Counsel.