William Searle Holdsworth

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Sir William Searle Holdsworth (born May 7, 1871; died January 2, 1944) was a British legal historian.

Holdsworth was professor of constitutional law at University College, London, from 1903 to 1908. He became Vinerian Professor of English Law at the University of Oxford in 1922, a position he retained until his death.

He was appointed as a member of the Order of Merit in 1943.

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  • History of English Law (12 vol., 1903–1938)
  • The Historians of Anglo-American Law (1928)
  • Charles Dickens as a Legal Historian (1928)

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Persondata
NAME Holdsworth, William Searle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION British legal historian
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH
DATE OF DEATH January 2, 1944
PLACE OF DEATH