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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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

  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. 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