Henry Harvey LL.D. (died 1585) was an English lawyer, who became Master of

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, and established the London premises (for two centuries) of

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, leased from the college. He also became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Life

He was son of Robert Harvey of Stradbroke,

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. and Joan, his wife. He was educated at Trinity Hall, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1538, and became LL.D. in 1542. On 27 January 1550 he was admitted an advocate at Doctors' Commons. He gained a reputation as an ecclesiastical lawyer, and was appointed vicar-general of his diocese by Nicholas Ridley,

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; and subsequently he was vicar-general of the

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. Under Queen Mary he was actively engaged in proceedings against

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. During the reign of

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, he assisted the Commissioners of 1570, engaged in drawing up statutes primarily intended as a check on

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ism. Alexander Hamilton Thompson, ''Cambridge and Its Colleges'' (1910), pp. 99-100. In 1567 Harvey procured a lease of the premises in London which, as Doctor's Commons, became the central stronghold of ecclesiastical lawyers. Trinity Hall had control of the buildings and chambers; and these rights, though rendered terminable in 1728, were not abandoned until the incorporation of Doctor's Commons in 1768.

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;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Harvey, Henry 16th-century births 1585 deaths English lawyers Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge People from Stradbroke Year of birth missing 16th-century English educators Members of Doctors' Commons Vice-chancellors of the University of Cambridge 16th-century English lawyers