Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law (Dublin)

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The Regius Professor of Feudal and English Law is a 1761 from King George III. Endowed Regius Professorship in Law at Trinity College Dublin.

History of the professorship

After Henry VIII. , The canon law had abolished, he tried at the same time to strengthen the civil law (Civil Law). To this end, he founded two chairs, the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford and a chair of the same name at the University of Cambridge . A situation arose in which the legal tradition of England became disconnected from developments on the European continent.

In Ireland the situation was similar, although the Irish tradition of the Brehon Laws has to be added. The lack of university law training in Ireland led to the requirement that a student must have studied in England before he could be admitted to the bar in Ireland. This led to the fact that the financial resources had a much greater influence on the training and to a creative use of the rules. But it did not improve the skills of the lawyers.

In 1761, Georg III. the professorship under certain conditions. A candidate had to be a barrister with at least two years of experience. He was elected by the Provost and high-ranking fellows for a specified period of time or for life. If the elected was a college fellow, he would have to waive his college fellowship if he was called for life. This measure, as well as the payment of £ 360 a year, almost double the corresponding Oxford chair, ensured that the holder was well protected by the university authorities.

The Chair put Dublin at the forefront of legal reform. The chair only lagged behind Oxford and Cambridge for the next three decades.

The first professor, Francis Stoughton Sullivan (1719-), son of a military officer, had graduated from Trinity College Dublin in a breathtakingly short time with a BA at the age of 17, 1736. At the age of 19 he was elected a fellow of the college. His registration in London's Middle Temple in 1742 earned him license to practice in Ireland in 1746. In 1750 he became Regius Professor of Civil Law . In 1761 he was the first professor to take over the chair for Feudal and English Law .

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Surname name suffix from to annotation
Francis Stoughton Sullivan LL.D. 1761 1766 Sullivan was the youngest member to become a Fellow at Trinity College at just 19 years old. In 1750 he became Regius Professor of Laws . He was the first to fill the professorship for Feudal and English Law. In addition to law, he also taught Greek (1755–1758) and history (1759–1760).
Patrick Palmer LL.D. 1766 1776 Palmer couldn't match Sullivan's performance or skill.
Patrick Duigenan LL.D. 1776 1816 Duigenan was the son of a principal at St. Bride's Parish School. After Sullivan's move to Feudal and English Law , he took over the Regius Chair of Civil Law . In 1776, at the instigation of the Provost of the University of Hutchinson , the remuneration of the professorship for Feudal and English Law was increased from 360 to 460 pounds in order to persuade Duigenan to give up his fellowship, which he was no longer allowed to hold after receiving the professorship. Duigenan accepted the offer. When he was no longer subordinate to the Provost's sphere of influence in 1777, he published a pamphlet in which he mercilessly exposed Hutchinson. So he contributed more to entertainment than teaching in Dublin . While holding the professorship, he became a Member of Parliament for the Armagh District. Later he also served as a judge. Despite all these activities, he did not give up the professorship and held it until his death in 1816.
Philip Cecil Crampton DCL, LL.D. 1817 1834 Crampton took over the professorship in 1817. This he left only when he was promoted to Advocate General.
Samuel Mountifort Longfield MA, LL.D. 1834 Nov 21, 1884 In 1832 Longfield had become the first professor of political economy at Trinity College. He gave up the professorship and the fellowship in order to take over the Regius professorship. Like his predecessors, he saw no problem in other offices and so he divided his attention into different activities.
Edmund Thomas Bewley MA, LL.D., FSA 1884 1890 Bewley left the professorship to take a place as judge in the highest Irish court.
George Vaughan Hart 1890 1909
James Sinclair Baxter LL.D. 1909
Not forgiven anymore 1934 From 1934, the professorship was merged with the Regius Chair of Law and no longer awarded independently.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Seán Patrick Donlan: The Places Most Fit for This Purpose: Francis Stoughton Sullivan and Legal Study at the Uiversity of Dublin (1761-6) . In: Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr , Vol. 20, 2005, pp. 120-139; Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, JSTOR 30071055 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n VTH Delany: Legal Studies in Trinity College, Dublin, Since The Foundation . In: Hermathena , No. 89 (May 1957), pp. 3-16; Trinity College Dublin; JSTOR 23039694 .
  3. ^ A b c William Hamilton Bryson (1999) English Ideas on Legal Education in Virginia . University of Richmond, UR Scholarship Repository; Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b James Chalmers: Resorting to Crime (PDF) Introductory lecture by the Regius Professor of Law in Bute Hall of the University of Glasgow on January 17, 2013, p. 3.
  5. ^ A b c Samuel Lewis: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland . Lewis, 1837, p. 551.
  6. ↑ a b c Cæsar Litton Falkiner:  Sullivan, Francis Stoughton . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 55:  Stow - Taylor. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1898 (English).
  7. ^ A b Seán Patrick Donlan: A Man of Very Superior Abilities . (PDF) Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England.
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g Dublin University Calendar for the Year 1900 . Dublin University Press, Hodges, Figgis, and Co. / Longmans, Green, and Co., London 1900.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h John William Stubbs: The history of the University of Dublin from its foundation to the end of the eighteenth century, with an appendix of original documents, which for the most part, are preserved in the college . Dublin University Press, 1889; archive.org
  10. ^ The Royal Kalendar, and Court and City Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and the Colonies ; 1834. Oxford University Press, p. 395.
  11. ^ A b Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland: The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, Parochial History, and Documents Respecting the State of the Poor, Progress of Education, Etc , Volume 6. J. Petheram, 1834, P. 582.
  12. ^ A b c John Andrew Hamilton:  Longfield, Mountifort . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 34:  Llywd - MacCartney. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1893 (English).
  13. ^ A b David James O'Donoghue:  Bewley, Edmund Thomas . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Suppl. 2, Volume 2:  Faed - Muybridge. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1912 (English).
  14. ^ Edmund Thomas Bewley. findagrave.com; Retrieved April 3, 2017.
  15. ^ The Dublin University Calendar for the Year 1916–1917 . (PDF) Longmans, Green, and Co., London / New York / Bombay 1917.