Vinerian Professor of English Law
- Vinerian Professor of English Law
The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to establish a Professorship of the Common Law in that University, as well as a number of Vinerian scholarships and readerships.
The holders of the Chair since its foundation are the following:
# 1758 - 1766 William Blackstone (1723-1780)
# 1766 - 1777 Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803)
# 1777 - 1793 Richard Wooddeson (1745-1822)
# 1793 - 1824 James Blackstone (c1765-1831) (son of William Blackstone above)
# 1824 - 1843 Philip Williams (1780-1843)
# 1844 - 1880 John Robert Kenyon (1807-80)
# 1882 - 1909 Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922)
# 1909 - 1922 William Martin Geldart (1870-1922)
# 1922 - 1944 William Searle Holdsworth (1871-1944)
# 1944 - 1949 Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (1886-1978)
# 1949 - 1964 Harold Greville Hanbury (1898-1993)
# 1964 - 1979 Rupert (A.R.N.) Cross (1912-80)
# 1979 - 1997 Guenter Treitel
# 1997 - Andrew Ashworth (b. 1947)
ource
* Hanbury, Harold Grenville, 1958. "The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education", Oxford: OUP.
* Oxford University calendars "passim"
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