Henry Goudy

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Henry Goudy (born September 16, 1848 in Strabane , † March 3, 1921 in Bath ) was a Scottish lawyer and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford .

Life

Henry Goudy was born in Strabane, Northern Ireland , the son of theologian Alexander Porter Goudy, a Northern Irish Presbyterian pastor from Strabane , County Tyrone . His mother was Isabella Kinross (1824-1906), daughter of a merchant from the Scottish port city of Ayr . He was one of three sons and two daughters. After the father's death, the family returned to their mother's homeland, so that Henry spent his youth in Scotland. One of his brothers later became a successful businessman in New Zealand, the other taught Russian at the University of Cambridge . His sisters lived in Cambridge unmarried.

He studied law in Glasgow (1864-1867) and Edinburgh (enrolled in 1868), where he obtained an MA in 1870 and an LLB in 1871. He then spent a year at the University of Königsberg and thereby received special access to Roman law , in which he developed into a leading capacity. From November 22, 1872 he was admitted to the bar ( barrister ) in Scotland.

Goudy's admission to the bar coincided with a buoyant period in Scottish jurisprudence. The subject was revived through contacts to Germany and in 1880 Goudy wrote Local Government with William C. Smith , which was intended to stimulate the discourse on political reforms. In 1886 he published an influential work on business busting in Scotland. The fourth edition of the work was published in 1914 and had established itself as a standard work in teaching. In 1888 John Rankine was preferred to him for the professorship in Edinburgh, but in 1889 he succeeded his former teacher James Muirhead as professor of civil law at the University of Edinburgh . Although Goudy's career so far had focused on Scottish law, his studies in Edinburgh and Königsberg had prepared him for Roman law . After a few articles on Roman law, he published a second edition of Muirhead's Historical Introduction to the Law of Rome . He disclosed the plagiarism of the work by the former US ambassador Hannis Taylor in an article for the Judicial Review (1908).

In 1893 he was appointed to succeed James Bryce, who was also born in Northern Ireland, and on his proposal to Gladstone as Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University. In 1894 he was awarded the Doctor of Civl Law (DCL) from Oxford University. and also an LL.D. in Law from the University of Edinburgh in 1917 . He remained as Regius Professor until 1919 and then retired. He retired and kept his fellowship at All Souls College .

The bachelor died on March 3, 1921 in Bath, where he was buried.

Honors

Goudy was an honorary member of Gray's Inn , one of the four bar associations in the United Kingdom. During his time in Edinburgh, Peter Birks founded the Roman law club , which was not very active after Birks moved to Oxford. With the appointment of a new professorship for Civil Law in Edinburgh in 2013, activities are to be intensified. The seminar has been renamed the Henry Goudy Seminar in Roman Law .

bibliography

36 works by Goudy in 150 publications are presented in approx. 2700 libraries on offer. Goudy's work has been translated into four languages.

  • A treatise on the law of bankruptcy in Scotland (24 editions between 1886 and 1914)
  • Historical Introduction to the Privat Law of Rome, (35 editions between 1899 and 2009)
  • Addresses on Codification of Law
  • Trichotomy in Roman Law; Clarendon Press; 1910; German title: Tripartite in Roman law.
  • The marriage laws, 1901:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t John W. Cairns; Goudy, Henry (1848-1921), lawyer ; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  2. ↑ a b John Cairns; Henry Goudy & Corroboration ; accessed on May 21, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b c d Death notice for John Kinross Goudy from June 14, 1910; PERSONAL ITEMS; Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 842, June 14, 1910, page 4 ; accessed on May 22, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d Henry Goudy
  5. ^ Attacks on Taylor astonish Capital ; The New York Times, March 18, 1909; accessed on May 22, 2014.
  6. ^ Henry Goudy Seminar on the University of Edinburgh website; Retrieved May 28, 2014.
  7. ↑ a b Record of Henry Goudy on Worldcat; accessed on May 22, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Goudy, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1848
PLACE OF BIRTH Strabane
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1921
Place of death Bath , England