Rupert Cross
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Sir Rupert Cross (born Alfred Rupert Neale Cross 15 June 1912 in Chelsea, London – died 12 September 1980, Oxford) was a prominent British lawyer and academic. He was Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
He was also completely blind from the age of 1, as a result of cancer of the eyes, and, before his distinguished legal career, was already well-known as a chessplayer. As an undergraduate at Worcester College, Oxford he represented Oxford University four times (1931-34) on the top board in the prestigious annual Varsity chess match against Cambridge University. He played several times in the top section of the British Chess Championship in the 1930s (for which only an elite group of twelve players qualified).
His best-known work is probably Cross on Evidence, first published in 1959.
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