- Roland Wilson
Sir Roland Knyvet Wilson (27 August, 1840 - 29 October, 1919) was an English academic and political writer.
Wilson was educated at Eton and
King's College, Cambridge . In 1867 he was abarrister and then ventured into journalism, working for the "Weekly Reporter " and "Law Journal " from 1867 to 1871. He was a reader in Indian Law at theUniversity of Cambridge from 1878 to 1892.Wilson's history of English law impressed
A. V. Dicey due to its documenting the distinction between Blackstonian and Benthamite phases of law reform. Wilson was aclassical liberal involved in thePersonal Rights Association , an organisation which grew out of opposition to theContagious Diseases Acts , and his "The Province of the State" examined legitimate areas of concern for the state.Publications
*"A Short History of Modern English Law" (Rivington's Historical Handbooks) (1874).
*An annotated edition of SirG. C. Lewis ' "Use and Abuse of Political Terms" (1877).
*"An Introduction to the Study of Anglo-Muhammadan Law" (1894).
*"A Digest of Anglo-Muhammadan Law" (1895, 4th edition 1912).
*"The Province of the State" (1911).
*"Individualism and the Land Question: a Discussion" (1912).
*"The First and Last Fight for the Voluntary Principle in Education (1846-1858)" (1915).References
*In "Who Was Who 1897-2006". Retrieved March 27, 2007, from http://www.xreferplus.com/entry/6209215.
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