Frederick Stroud (1835 - 1912), barrister and

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, son of John Stroud of

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, was born at Cheltenham on 17 October 1835. He was educated at Cheltenham. He was admitted a solicitor in 1863, taking honours at the examination. He was

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1883. In 1862, he wrote his ''County Court Practice in Bankruptcy''.Charles Welch and W T Pike. "Frederick Stroud" in ''London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century''. Issue 15 of Pike's New Century Series. 1905. Page 307
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From 1862 to 1863, he wrote his ''Practical Law Affecting Bills of Sale''. He is the author of the " Judicial Dictionary", the first edition of which was published in 1890, the second being published in three volumes, an exhaustive and eminently practical dictionary of the English of affairs by the English Judges and Parliament from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century. After Stroud's death, the Law Journal said that the dictionary would long preserve his memory. It was at Stroud's suggestion that the policy of municipalities for the government of

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was adopted. Stroud was a member of the

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"Mr. Stroud has a foreign coin about the size of a dollar, but cut down, on which the obverse of No. 67 has been impressed. This is probably intended for a half crown."

References

* Joseph Foster (genealogist), Foster, Joseph. "Stroud, Frederick" in Men at the Bar. Second Edition. 1885
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*"Obituary" (1912) 2 Weekly Notes 53 Google Books

*"Legal Obituary" (1912) 132 Law Times 25
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*"Obituary" (1912) 47 Law Journal 2
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*"Practical Law affecting. (F. Stroud)" in "Bills of Sale" (1888) 1 An Index to Legal Periodical Literature 5

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