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- 1886-1935 (Creation)
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4 tubes, 2 boxes Mixed paper
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Biographical history
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))
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
2002.003 - Hood and letters patent transferred to the Archive from the Bursary, 2002.
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Scope and content
Certificates for degrees and honours received from the Universities of Paris, Harvard, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Louvain, Lyon and Rome; and from the Academy of Sciences, Bonn, and the Academie Royale des Sciences, Belgium. Unidentified academical hood. Letters patent appointing Buckland to the regius chair of civil law in the University of Cambridge.
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Open access - no restrictions.
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Related units of description
See also papers of grandson, J.B. Heigham for Buckland's diary (PPC).
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Portrait currently hanging in the Senior Combination Rooms.