Henry James Sumner Maine
1822–88
Jurist. BA, Cambridge, 1844. Regius professor of civil law, 1847–54. Called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 1850. Reader in Roman law and jurisprudence at the Council of Legal Education from 1852. Legal member of the governor-general’s council in India, 1862–9. Corpus Professor of jurisprudence, Oxford, 1869–77. Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, from 1877. Knighted, 1871. FRS 1874.
Sources
ODNB
Record of the Royal Society of London.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Record of the Royal Society of London: The record of the Royal Society of London for the promotion of natural knowledge. 4th edition. London: Royal Society. 1940.
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