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| Date transcribed | 2011-08-00 | | Transcribed by | Peter Bailey | | Comment | Note that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name patterns established by Buckland in his original work. |
| | Surname | Maine | | | First Name(s) | Henry James Sumner | | | Titles, Honours, etc. | Sir | | | Birth Year | 1822 | | | Death Year | 1888 | | | Entry | Son of Dr. James Maine : born Aug. 15,- 1822 : educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and Pembroke College, Cambridge : Exhibitioner and Scholar : Craven Scholar : Chancellor's English verse, 1842 : Senior Classic in 1844 : Tutor at Trinity Hall, 1845-7 : Regius Professor of Civil Law, 1847-54, called to the bar from Lincoln's Inn and the Middle Temple, 1850 : Reader in Roman Law and Jurisprudence at the Inns of Court, 1852 : one of the principal writers in the Saturday Review from 1855 : published his Ancient Law in 1861 : became Legal Member of the Supreme Council in India from Nov. 12, 1862, to Oct. 9, 1869 : Vice-Chancellor of the Calcutta University for 4 years : Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence, 1871- 78 : published Village Communities, 1871 : K.C.S.I., 1871 : and Member of the Council of India, 1871-88: published Early History of Institutions, 1875 : Master of Trinity Halh Cambridge, 1877-88 : published Dissertations on Early Law and Custom, 1883, and Popular Government in 1885 : and wrote for the St. lames's Gazette : also on India in The Reign of Queen Victoria : became Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge, 1887 : died at Cannes Feb. 3, 1888. He had declined the Chief Justiceship of Bengal, the Permanent Under Secretaryship of State for the Home Department, the Chief Clerkship of the House of Commons, and other appointments : was F.R.S., and had many honorary distinctions : one of the first to apply the historical method to the study of the philosophy of institutions : wrote other articles on legal and Indian subjects. |
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