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Regius Professor Of Civil Law (Cambridge)
The Regius Professorship of Civil Law is one of the oldest and most prestigious of the professorships at the University of Cambridge. The chair was founded by Henry VIII in 1540 with a stipend of £40 per year, and the holder is still chosen by the Crown. Regius Professors of Civil Law * Thomas Smith (1540) * Humphrey Busby (1547?) * Walter Haddon (1551) * William Soone (1561) * William Clarke (1563) * Thomas Legge (1570?) * Thomas Bynge (1574) * John Cowell (1594) * Thomas Morrisson (1611) * Thomas Goad (1635) * John Clark (1666) * John Boord (1673) * John Oxenden (1684) * Thomas Ayloffe (1703) * Francis Dickins (1714) * Henry Monson (1755) * William Ridlington (1757) * Samuel Hallifax (1770) * Joseph Jowett (1782) * James William Geldart (1814) * Henry James Sumner Maine (1847) * John Thomas Abdy (1854) * Edwin Charles Clark (1873) * William Warwick Buckland (1914) * Patrick William Duff (1945) * Peter Gonville Stein (1968) * David Eric Lothian Johnston (199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor = The Lord Patten of Barnes , vice_chancellor = Louise Richardson , students = 24,515 (2019) , undergrad = 11,955 , postgrad = 12,010 , other = 541 (2017) , city = Oxford , country = England , coordinates = , campus_type = University town , athletics_affiliations = Blue (university sport) , logo_size = 250px , website = , logo = University of Oxford.svg , colours = Oxford Blue , faculty = 6,995 (2020) , academic_affiliations = , The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Ayloffe
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Eric Lothian Johnston
David Eric Lothian Johnston KC (born 1961) is a Scottish legal expert, currently Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh.Profile oDavid Eric Lothian Johnston website of the Edinburgh Law School; read 17 July 2014. Career Johnston was an undergraduate at Christ's College, Cambridge. He obtained a B.A. in 1982, a M.A. and Ph.D. in 1986 and an LL.D. in 2001 at the St John's College, Cambridge.Full CV of D. E. L. Johnston on the Website of Axiom Advocates; read 17 July 2014. 1985/86 he spent time as visiting scholar at the German institute for legal history in Freiburg. He was appointed Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge between 1985 and 1989, after which he moved into legal practice, concentrating on public law, in particular, human rights, and commercial law. 1987 he also acted as visiting fellow of Michigan Law School. 1992 he spent in legal practice. He was involved in the litigation arising from the Lockerbie bombing. From 1993 to 1999 he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stein (academic)
Peter Gonville Stein, QC, FBA (29 May 1926 – 7 August 2016) was a British legal scholar. He was Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Aberdeen from 1956 to 1968 and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1968 until his retirement in 1993. Biography Peter Stein was educated at Liverpool College and later studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained his BA in 1949.''Who Was Who'', Published by A&C Black Limited. Online edition, 2020 He obtained his LLB in Cambridge as an external in 1950, and became a solicitor in 1951. He completed a scholarship at the University of Pavia before becoming an Assistant Lecturer in Law in the University of Nottingham, in 1952. He then moved to the University of Aberdeen, where he obtained his PhD, and he was Lecturer (1953-56) and then Professor (1956-1968) in Jurisprudence. Back to Cambridge, Stein was Regius Professor of Civil Law and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick William Duff
Patrick may refer to: *Patrick (given name), list of people and fictional characters with this name *Patrick (surname), list of people with this name People *Saint Patrick (c. 385–c. 461), Christian saint *Gilla Pátraic (died 1084), Patrick or Patricius, Bishop of Dublin *Patrick, 1st Earl of Salisbury (c. 1122–1168), Anglo-Norman nobleman *Patrick (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian right-back *Patrick (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian striker *Patrick (footballer, born 1992), Brazilian midfielder * Patrick (footballer, born 1994), Brazilian right-back *Patrick (footballer, born May 1998), Brazilian forward *Patrick (footballer, born November 1998), Brazilian attacking midfielder *Patrick (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian defender *Patrick (footballer, born 2000), Brazilian defender *John Byrne (Scottish playwright) (born 1940), also a painter under the pseudonym Patrick * Don Harris (wrestler) (born 1960), American professional wrestler who uses the ring name Patrick Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Warwick Buckland
William Warwick Buckland, FBA (11 June 1859 – 16 January 1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945. Life William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos. Elected a Fellow of Caius, he remained a Cambridge academic for the remainder of his life. In 1920 he became a Fellow of the British Academy. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh (1922), Harvard (1929), Lyon, Louvain and Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S .... Among his best-known works on Roman Law is ''A Textbook of Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Charles Clark
Edwin Charles Clark (5 November 1835 – 20 July 1917) was a British legal scholar, barrister and antiquarian, who specialised in Roman Law. He was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1872 to 1914. He had been elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1859 and then moved to St John's College, Cambridge in 1883 having been elected a professorial fellow. The author of a number of books, he wrote mainly for the benefit of his students (such as introductory texts), and his works "had little influence and are seldom cited" by jurists. Clark was also an amateur antiquarian, with an interest in coins and archaeology, and published a number of related papers. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA), and also served as president of the Cambridge Archaeological Society. Personal life Clark was born on 5 November 1835, and was the son of Edwin Clark of Ellinthorp Hall in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England. His mother an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Thomas Abdy
John Thomas Abdy (5 July 1822 – 25 September 1899) was an English legal scholar, who was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University. Life John Thomas Abdy was the son and heir of Lt.-Col. James Nicholas Abdy of the East India Company. His early education was at the Kensington Proprietary Grammar School. He graduated in 1844 from Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1847 and a Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree in 1852. In 1850 he became a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was called to the bar. From 1854 to 1872, he was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge. In 1858, he additionally became Gresham Professor of Law in London, lecturing on the history of feudalism Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was the combination of the legal, economic, military, cultural and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe between the 9th and 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of struct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry James Sumner Maine
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine, (15 August 1822 – 3 February 1888), was a British Whig comparative jurist and historian. He is famous for the thesis outlined in his book ''Ancient Law'' that law and society developed "from status to contract." According to the thesis, in the ancient world individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, while in the modern one, in which individuals are viewed as autonomous agents, they are free to make contracts and form associations with whomever they choose. Because of this thesis, Maine can be seen as one of the forefathers of modern legal anthropology, legal history and sociology of law. Early life Maine was the son of Dr. James Maine, of Kelso, Roxburghshire. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, where a boarding house was named after him in 1902, being the 7th block on the avenue, and 3rd on the East Side. From there he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1840. At Cambridge, he was noted as a classical scholar and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James William Geldart
James William Geldart LL.D. (1785–1876) was an English cleric and academic. He was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge, from 1814 to 1847. Life The eldest son of the Rev. James Geldart, rector of Kirk Deighton, Yorkshire (died 12 November 1839), and his wife Sarah, daughter of William Williamson of Linton Spring, Wetherby, he was born at Swinnow Hall, Wetherby, on 15 February 1785. He was educated at Beverley grammar school, and was admitted at Trinity Hall, Cambridge on 5 May 1800, becoming a scholar in December 1803. On 16 February 1808 he was elected Skirne Fellow of St. Catharine's Hall, but returned to Trinity Hall as a Fellow and tutor on 4 October 1809. He resided there as vice-master until 1820. Geldart took the degree of LL.B. in 1806 and became LL.D. in 1814. On 28 January 1814 he was admitted Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge, on the nomination of Lord Liverpool. A reforming professor, he lectured often, and introduced a written examination at Cambri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Jowett
Joseph Jowett (1751 – 13 November 1813) was an English Anglican cleric and jurist. He was Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University from 1782 to 1813. He was the uncle of William Jowett.Goodwin, G., revised by H. C. G. Matthew, 'Jowett, William (1787–1855), missionary', in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford University Press, 2004) Life The son of Henry Jowett of Leeds, Joseph Jowett was educated in Leeds before being admitted to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1769. He moved to Trinity Hall in 1773, becoming a Fellow there that year and a Tutor in 1775. He was Rector of Wethersfield, Essex from 1795 until his death in 1813. It is here at St. Mary Magdalene Church that he oversaw the vicarage to which Patrick Brontë had his first curacy. He was known as "Little Jowett." He originated the Cambridge Chimes of Great St Mary’s Church, from which the chimes of Big Ben Big Ben is the nicknam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Hallifax
Samuel Hallifax or Halifax (1733–1790) was an English churchman and academic, holder of several chairs at Cambridge and was successively Bishop of Gloucester (1781–1789) and Bishop of St Asaph (1789–1790). Life He was born at Mansfield on 8 January 1733, eldest son of Robert Hallifax, apothecary, and by Hannah, daughter of Samuel Jebb of the same town. Robert Hallifax, M.D. (1735–1810), who was physician to the future George IV, was a younger brother. Sir Richard Jebb and John Jebb were his first cousins. After attending the grammar school of Mansfield, Hallifax was admitted to Jesus College, Cambridge, as an ordinary sizar 21 October 1749, and was elected to a closed scholarship. In January 1754 he graduated B.A., when he was third wrangler in mathematics, and won the chancellor's gold medal for classics, and in 1755 and 1756 he carried off one of the members' prizes. He was elected foundation scholar on 16 February 1754, and admitted to a fellowship on 22 June 1756 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
