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Regius Chair Of Law, Glasgow
The Regius Chair of Law at the University of Glasgow was founded in December 1713 with an endowment by Queen Anne. (Its foundation is sometimes incorrectly dated to 1712, due to an error in Glasgow's ''Munimenta'', published in 1854. ) It is one of twelve Regius Professorships within the University of Glasgow. The first holder of the chair, William Forbes, was appointed in 1714. The current holder, James Chalmers, was appointed in 2012. Regius Professors of Law * William Forbes MA (1714) * William Cross, Advocate (1746) * Hercules Lindsay LLD (1750) * John Millar, advocate (1761) * Robert Davidson LLD (1801) * Allan Alexander Wellwood Maconochie LLD (1842) * George Skene, Advocate (1855) * Robert Berry MA LLD (1867) * Alexander Moody Stuart LLD (1887) * William Gloag KC BA LLD (1905) * Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC MA LLD (1934) * David Maxwell Walker CBE QC MA PhD LLD FRSE FBA (1958) * Joe Thomson LLB FRSE (1991) * James Chalmers LLB LLM Dip LP (2012) See also * List of Professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Glasgow
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Anne, Queen Of Great Britain
Anne (6 February 1665 – 1 August 1714) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from 8 March 1702 until 1 May 1707. On 1 May 1707, under the Acts of Union, the kingdoms of England and Scotland united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain. Anne continued to reign as Queen of Great Britain and Ireland until her death. Anne was born in the reign of Charles II to his younger brother and heir presumptive, James, whose suspected Roman Catholicism was unpopular in England. On Charles's instructions, Anne and her elder sister Mary were raised as Anglicans. Mary married their Dutch Protestant cousin, William III of Orange, in 1677, and Anne married Prince George of Denmark in 1683. On Charles's death in 1685, James succeeded to the throne, but just three years later he was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Mary and William became joint monarchs. Although the sisters had been close, disagreements over Anne's finances, status, and choice of acquaintances ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Millar (philosopher)
John Millar of Glasgow (22 June 1735 – 30 May 1801) was a Scottish philosopher, historian and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Glasgow from 1761 to 1800. Biography Born a son of the manse of the Kirk o' Shotts, Shotts, Lanarkshire, John Millar was educated by an uncle and then on his father being transferred to the parish of Hamilton, at the Old Grammar School of Hamilton (renamed the Hamilton Academy in 1848.) Continuing his studies at the University of Glasgow, he became one of the most important followers of Adam Smith, the founder of economic science. For a short time in the 1750s he was tutor in the household of Henry Home, Lord Kames. In 1760 he was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. From 1761 to 1800, Millar was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Glasgow, where his lectures gained him nationwide fame. His colleagues and supporters included Smith, Kames, and David Hume. Millar was elected Clerk of the Senate of the University of Glasgow in 1772. Millar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gloag (lawyer)
William Murray Gloag (15 March 1865 – 5 February 1934) was a Scottish lawyer and academic. His ''The Law of Contract'', first published in 1914, is considered one of the most authoritative texts on Scots contract law. His two immediate successors in the Regius Chair of Law at Glasgow University described him as "the outstanding jurist of the century" and "the most remarkable legal scholar who has ever held this Chair".Andrew Dewar Gibb in a Quincentenary Lecture at Glasgow University, cited in Early life Gloag was born in Edinburgh in 1865, the son of William Ellis Gloag, Lord Kincairney, a Senator of the College of Justice from 1889 to 1905. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, graduating with a first-class degree in modern history in 1888. He then studied at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh and began practice as an advocate in 1889. Career Gloag lectured on Procedure and Evidence at the University of Edinburgh from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Maxwell Walker
David Maxwell Walker (9 April 1920 – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. Early life Walker was educated at the High School of Glasgow,"Walker, Prof. David Maxwell" ''Who's Who'', 2011, A & C Black, 2011; online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2010. Retrieved 12 December 2010 at the time the city's publicly funded grammar school, where he was Mackindlay Prizeman in Classics. He was the son of a bank agent who died when Walker was 14. Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the |
Regius Professorships
A Regius Professor is a university professor who has, or originally had, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The first Regius Professorship was in the field of medicine, and founded by the Scottish King James IV at the University of Aberdeen in 1497. Regius chairs have since been instituted in various universities, in disciplines judged to be fundamental and for which there is a continuing and significant need. Each was established by an English, Scottish, or British monarch, and following proper advertisement and interview through the offices of the university and the national government, the current monarch still appoints the professor (except for those at the University of Dublin in Ireland, which left the United Kingdom in 1922). This royal imprimatur, and the relative rarity of these professorships, means a Regius chair is prestigious and highly sought-after. Regius Professors are traditionally ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Davidson
Archibald Davidson (c. 1732 – 1803) was a Scottish minister who was moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1788 and was principal of Glasgow University. Life He was born about 1732 in the manse in the village of Crawfordjohn in South Lanarkshire, the son of Rev Robert Davidson. He attended Glasgow University where he graduated M.A. in 1752. Later that year (in November), he was writing home from Göttingen University to William Cullen, a professor at Glasgow University. He wrote with a fluid confident style, had had conversations with the German professors and promised his friend a good German dictionary if he could find one. He was in the company of young Scottish gentlemen and noblemen, and his future career would depend on good connections and the patronage they would offer. Six years later, he was presented by the commissioner for William, Earl of Dundonald, who had electoral interests in the area, to Paisley High Kirk as 2nd Charge Ministe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Dewar Gibb
Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC (13 February 1888 – 24 January 1974) was a Scottish advocate, barrister, professor and politician. He taught law at Edinburgh and Cambridge, and was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow 1934–1958. Ewen A. Cameron, 'Gibb, Andrew Dewar (1888–1974)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Oct 2009; online edn, Sept 2010 Gibb was the leader of the (SNP) from 1936 to 1940. Early life and career Born in Paisley, the son of William Fletcher Gibb, a doctor, Gibb was educated at |
Joe Thomson
Joseph McGeachy Thomson (6 May 1948 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish lawyer and academic. He was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Scottish Law Commission. Early life Thomson was born in Campbeltown and attended the independent Keil School in Dumbarton. He then studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated LLB in 1970 and was awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize as the outstanding LLB honours graduate. Career Following his graduation, Thomson was appointed lecturer at the University of Birmingham, moving in 1974 to King's College London. In 1984, he became Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde, and in 1991 was appointed to the Regius Chair in Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996, and was President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (now the Society of Legal Scholars) in 2000–2001. He was appointed to a five-year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Glasgow School Of Law
The School of Law at the University of Glasgow provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Law, and awards the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (''Legum Baccalaureus'', LLB), Master of Laws (''Iuris Vtriusque Magistrum'', LLM), LLM by Research, Master of Research (MRes) and Doctor of Philosophy (''Philosophiæ Doctor'', PhD), the degree of Doctor of Laws being awarded generally only as an honorary degree. There are forty-nine full-time academic staff and over one thousand students. The current Head of the School of Law is Professor Jane Mair. The 2019 ''Complete University Guide'' league rankings placed Glasgow at 2nd in the UK while the 2019 rankings from ''The Guardian'' placed Glasgow at ninth in the UK. The 2018 ''The Times'' league rankings placed Glasgow at 4th in the UK. History At the University's foundation in 1451, there were four original faculties: Arts, Divinity, Law and Medicine. Both Canon and Civil Law were taught, however by the sixteenth Century, instructi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Professorships At The University Of Glasgow
Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors are usually experts in their field and teachers of the highest rank. In most systems of academic ranks, "professor" as an unqualified title refers only to the most senior academic position, sometimes informally known as "full professor". In some countries and institutions, the word "professor" is also used in titles of lower ranks such as associate professor and assistant professor; this is particularly the case in the United States, where the unqualified word is also used colloquially to refer to associate and assistant professors as well. This usage would be considered incorrect among other academic communities. However, the otherwise unqualified title "Professor" designated with a capital letter nearly always refers to a full professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
