GB 2198 000891
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Person
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1859-1946
Legal scholar. Matriculated Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, 1881. Elected scholar, 1884; elected Fellow, 1889; appointed College lecturer, 1895; appointed College Tutor, 1903; Senior Tutor, 1912-14; elected President, 1923. BA, MA, LLD, FBA (1920). Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1914-45. Received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Lyons, Louvain and Paris.
(For further biographical information about Buckland see Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XXXIII (1947), Dictionary of National Biography, and The Caian, Vol LI (1946))