Henry Arthur Hollond

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Henry Arthur Hollond DSO OBE (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]

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He was also author of Frederic William Maitland, 1850-1906: A Memorial Address (1953). [5] He was editor of the Cambridge Studies in English Legal History series.

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. [6]

References

  1. "Hollond, Prof. Henry Arthur", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edition, Oxford University Press, April 2014.
  2. Leon Radzinowicz. Adventures in Criminology. Routledge. 1999. ISBN   0415198755. Taylor & Francis e-Library. 2002. ISBN   9781134639359. p 158.
  3. (1947) 204 The Law Times 106 Google Books
  4. Harold Potter. Potter's Historical Introduction to English Law and Its Institutions. Fourth Edition. Sweet & Maxwell. 1958. Page 280. Google Books.
  5. For reviews of this book, see the Times Literary Supplement, 4 September 1953, p 570; and Sir F Maurice Powicke, "Short Notices" (1954) 69 English Historical Review 350 (No 271: April 1954).
  6. 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