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Eldon Law Scholarship
The Eldon Law Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to students from the University of Oxford who wish to study for the English Bar. Applicants must either have obtained a first class honours degree in the Final Honours School, or obtained a distinction on the BCL or MJur. It is a two-year scholarship presently funded at £9,000 a year. History The scholarship dates from 12 May 1830, and was funded in response to an application from subscribers. Although the scholarship is named after Lord Eldon LC, it is not funded from his will; Lord Eldon did not die until eight years after the scholarship was founded. The first trustees included the Duke of Richmond, Earl of Mansfield, Earl of Romney and Lord Arden. Until 1963 it was a requirement that an applicant be a member of the Church of England. In 1963 that was downgraded to a preference, and in 1983 the requirement was dropped entirely. Past winners Past winners include: * Herman Merivale (1831), civil servant and historian * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Scott Lord High Chancellor Of England 1801–1806 By William Cowen
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Herbert
Sir Robert George Wyndham Herbert, (12 June 1831 – 6 May 1905), was the first Premiers of Queensland, Premier of Queensland, Australia. At 28 years and 181 days of age, he was the youngest person ever to become premier of an Australian state. Early years Born in Brighton, England, on 12 June 1831, Herbert was the only son of the Hon. Algernon Herbert, a younger son of the first Earl of Carnarvon. He was educated at Eton College, Eton and Balliol College, Oxford. He won a Balliol scholarship in 1849 and, subsequently, the Hertford and Ireland scholarships. He took a first-class in Honour Moderations, Classical Moderations, won the Latin verse prize in 1852, and obtained second-class final honours in the classical school. He was elected All Souls College, Oxford, Fellow of All Souls in 1854, and was Eldon Law Scholarship, Eldon law scholar. In 1855, he became private secretary to William Ewart Gladstone and was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1858. Queensland colony W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murray Coutts-Trotter
Sir Victor Murray Coutts-Trotter (12 May 1874 – 12 May 1929) was a British barrister who was Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1924 to 1929. Biography Son of Alexander Trotter, of Newcastle and London,''Who was who in British India'', John F. Riddick, Greenwood Press, 1998, p. 367 Trotter was educated at St. Paul's School, London and Balliol College, Oxford, and called to the Bar from the Inner Temple. In 1901 he stood 1st class in classical Moderations and in the Final School of Humanities. Trotter won Hertford and Eldon Law Scholarships. He became assistant professor of Greek at the University of Liverpool in 1898. Trotter also served as Vinerian Professor of Law and Lecturer in Criminal Law and Evidence in Oxford. He worked under Justice Sir Walter George Salis Schwabe as a junior Barrister in the Madras Presidency. In January 1915 he became a puisne judge of the Madras High Court and was appointed Chief Justice on 3 June 1924. He was subsequently knighted and res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Hazel
Alfred Ernest William Hazel (20 February 1869 – 20 August 1944) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament (MP) and legal academic at the University of Oxford. Background He was educated at West Bromwich Wesleyan School and King Edward's School, Birmingham before going to study Classics and Law at Jesus College, Oxford. He graduated with first-class honours and won the Eldon Law Scholarship. He was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn in 1898, and was appointed to a Fellowship in Law at Jesus College in the same year. Politics He was MP for West Bromwich between 1906 (when the Liberal Party won a large majority) and January 1910 (when the Liberal Party lost 125 seats, including West Bromwich). He was re-selected as prospective Liberal candidate for West Bromwich and was to fight a general election expected in 1914/15 which was postponed due to the outbreak of war. When the election eventually took place in 1918, the partners in the Coalition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Francis Liddell
Sir Frederick Francis Liddell (7 June 1865 – 19 March 1950) was a British lawyer and civil servant. He is noted for being First Parliamentary Counsel. Early life He was born in 1865, the son of Henry Liddell, the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford; his older sister, Alice, would become famous as the inspiration for the 1865 novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''.''Times'' obituary He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1888 with first-class honours in '' Literae humaniores''. On leaving Oxford, he was appointed the private secretary to Sir Arthur Gordon, the Governor of Ceylon; after two years, when Gordon's tenure as governor expired, he returned home. In 1891 he became a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, a position he would hold until 1906. He won the Eldon Scholarship in 1892 and was called to the Bar in 1894.''Who Was Who'' Career Liddell entered Charles Sargant's chambers at Lincoln's Inn, and a year later, on Sargant's advice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Vice-chancellors Of The University Of Oxford
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford is the chief executive and leader of the University of Oxford. The following people have been vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford (formally known as The Right Worshipful the Vice-Chancellor): __TOC__ Chronological list * 1230 – Elyas de Daneis * 1270 – Robert Steeton * 1288 – John Heigham * 1304 – John de Oseworhd * 1311 – Walter Gifford * 1325 – Richard Kamshale * 1333 – Richard FitzRalph * 1336 – John de Ayllesbury * 1337 – John de Reigham * 1347 – Hugh de Willoughby * 1348 – William de Hawkesworth * 1367 – John de Codeford * 1368 – John de Codeford * 1377 – Robert Aylesham * 1382 – Fr Peter Stokes * 1386 – Henry Nafford or Yafford * 1389 – John Lyndon * 1391 – John Ashwardby * 1394 – Richard Ullerston * 1396 – Nicholas Faux * 1397 – William Farendon or Faringdon * 1399 &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis William Pember
Francis William Pember (16 August 1862 — 19 January 1954) was an English first-class cricketer, lawyer and an academic at the University of Oxford. Having been played first-class cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club, Hampshire and the Marylebone Cricket Club in his younger years, it was as an academic that Pember was best known. He was Warden (college), warden of All Souls College, Oxford, All Souls College at Oxford for eighteen years, and would serve as List of vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford, Vice-Chancellor of the university in the late-1920s. Early life and cricket The son of the judge Edward Henry Pember, he was born at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Hatfield. He was educated at Harrow School, where he played for the school cricket team and was head of school in 1879. From Harrow, he matriculated in October 1880 to Balliol College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made his debut in first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Hampshir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, (23 March 1854 – 13 May 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played a very important role in the formulation of British foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s. From December 1916 to November 1918, he was one of the most important members of Prime Minister David Lloyd George's War cabinet. Milner was born in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1854 and was educated in Germany and England before attending Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated with a first class in classics. Though he was called to the bar in 1881, Milner instead became a journalist before entering politics as a Liberal before quickly leaving the party in 1886 over his opposition to Irish Home Rule. He joined the staff of Chancellor of the Exchequer George Goschen and was posted to Egypt as under-secretary of finance. He briefly chaired the Board of Inland Revenue until April 1897, when he was appointed Governor of the Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken
John Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken, (17 June 1847 – 27 June 1932), was an Anglo-Irish people, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British civil servant and the longest serving, and probably the most influential, Permanent Under-Secretary of State for India. Early life Arthur Godley was the only son of John Robert Godley, a colonial reformer, and Charlotte Godley, a letter-writer and community leader. From April 1850 to December 1852, he was with his parents in New Zealand; his father has become to be regarded as the founder of Canterbury, New Zealand, Canterbury. Godley Jr. was painted by Mary Townsend (artist), Mary Townsend in 1851; the original is held by Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, Canterbury Museum. He studied at Radley College, Radley, Rugby School, Rugby, and Balliol College, Oxford (where he won the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse). Career His first important role was acting as Assistant Private Secretary to William Ewart Gladstone, then Prime Minister of the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Barratt
Alfred Barratt (12 July 1844 – 18 May 1881) was an English barrister and philosopher. He trained in law at the University of Oxford, and published his first book, ''Physical Ethics'', in 1869 while studying there. He died an early death in 1881 from overwork as a barrister, secretary to the Oxford University Commission, and philosopher. His second book, ''Physical Metempiric'', was published posthumously in 1883. Early life and education Barratt was born in Heald Grove, Manchester, the son of James Barratt, a solicitor. As a child, Barratt showed considerable ability. At the age of 8, he was sent to a day-school where he learnt modern and classical languages. At the age of 12, he was sent to Sandbach School, Cheshire, where he learnt basic Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian from an under-master. At 14, Barratt went to Rugby School, Warwickshire, where in the course of his time there he won 29 prizes. In 1862, Barratt entered Balliol College, Oxford, and was elected to a scholarshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtenay Ilbert
Sir Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, (12 June 1841 – 14 May 1924) was a distinguished British lawyer and civil servant who served as legal adviser to the Viceroy of India's Council for many years until his eventual return from India to England. His later career included appointments as the First Parliamentary Counsel (1899–1902) and as Clerk of the House of Commons from 1902 to 1921. Biography Early life and career Ilbert was born at Kingsbridge, Devon to the Reverend Peregrine Arthur Ilbert, rector of Thurlestone, and Rose Anne (daughter of George Welsh Owen, of Lowman Green, Tiverton, Devon). He was educated at Marlborough College (1852–60) and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he won the Hertford, Ireland, Craven, and Eldon scholarships. He took first-class honours in classical moderations and ''literae humaniores'' and was elected a fellow of Balliol in 1864, where he was Bursar from 1871 to 1874. He was President of the Oxford Union in Michaelmas 1865. Legal car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Law Lord
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were judges appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the British House of Lords, as a committee of the House, effectively to exercise the judicial functions of the House of Lords, which included serving as the final court of appeal for most domestic matters. On 1 October 2009, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 was repealed owing to the creation of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. The House of Lords thus lost its judicial functions and the power to create law life peers lapsed, although the validity of extant List of law life peerages, life peerages created under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 remains intact. Lords of Appeal in Ordinary who were in office on 1 October 2009 automatically became Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. At the same time, those Supreme Court justices who already held seats in the House of Lords lost th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
