“William Lloyd Birkbeck”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

词条

William Lloyd Birkbeck

释义

References

William Lloyd Birkbeck {{post-nominals|country=GBR|QC}} (27 March 1806 – 25 May 1888) was an English legal scholar at the University of Cambridge, who served as Downing Professor of the Laws of England from 1860 and as Master of Downing College, Cambridge 1885–1888.

The son of George Birkbeck, the founder of the London Mechanics' Institute (now Birkbeck, University of London), William Lloyd Birkbeck was born in London, and educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge (matriculated Michaelmas 1826, scholar 1828, graduated B.A. as 9th wrangler in 1830, proceeded M.A. in 1833^[1]).

Appointed to a Fellowship at Trinity and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1830, Birkbeck was called to the bar in 1833. Upon the death of his father George Birkbeck in 1841, Birkbeck succeeded him as President of the London Mechanics' Institute^[2] (renamed the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution in 1866).

Birkbeck held the following academic positions:^[1]

President of the Birkbeck Literary and Scientific Institution, London, 1841–88^[2]
Reader in Equity to the Council of Legal Education, London, 1854–73
Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge, 1860–88
Examiner in Civil Law, Cambridge, 1873–74
Master of Downing College, Cambridge, 1885–88

Birkbeck was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1886.^[3] He died on 25 May 1888, aged 82, at Downing College, Cambridge, and was buried in the family tomb at Kensal Green Cemetery.^[4]

References

1. ^¹Venn, J., Alumni Cantabrigienses: Birkbeck, William Lloyd
2. ^¹Birkbeck: Former Officers of the College
3. ^[https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/lawjrnl298&div=4&id=&page= 55 Law J. Rep. (n.s.) vi (1886): Preferments and Memoranda]
4. ^[https://billiongraves.com/grave/William-Lloyd-Birkbeck/1170200 Billion Graves: William Lloyd Birkbeck]

{{s-start}}{{s-aca}}{{succession box
|title=Master of Downing College, Cambridge
|years=1885–1888
|before=Thomas Worsley
|after=Alexander Hill}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Birkbeck, William Lloyd}}

随便看

开放百科全书收录14589846条英语、德语、日语等多语种百科知识，基本涵盖了大多数领域的百科知识，是一部内容自由、开放的电子版国际百科全书。