Henry Arthur HollondDSOOBE (1884-1974) was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge from 1943[1] to 18 November 1950.[2] He is author of English Legal Authors Before Blackstone, first published as a periodical article under the title English Legal Authors Before 1700 at 9 Cambridge Law Journal 292, and then reprinted separately in 42 pages by Stevens & Sons Limited in 1947.[3] The work is "short but complete".[4]
Private life
He voted against allowing women to gain Cambridge degrees and later married the American academic Marjorie Hollond on 7 September 1929. She was director of studies at two Cambridge colleges and a Cambridge university lecturer in economics. She went on to help the reorganisation in the university in 1948 when women were first allowed to gain a Cambridge degree.[5]
References
World Biography. Institute for Research in Biography. 1948. Volume 1. Page 2291. Google Books.
London Calling. BBC. 1948. Issues 432–457. Page 21. Google Books.
Kahn. Fiat Iustitia: Essays in Memory of Oliver Deneys Schreiner. School of Law of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 1983. Page 9. Google Books
British Book News 1947 Illustrated. Page 83. Google Books.
^Harold Potter. Potter's Historical Introduction to English Law and Its Institutions. Fourth Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. 1958. Page 280. Google Books.
^Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004), "Marjorie Hollond", The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65548, retrieved 1 July 2023