Wilfrid Prest

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Wilfrid Prest (born 1940) is a historian, specialising in legal history, who is currently a professor at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society [1], the Australian Academy of the Humanities [2] and the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia [3], as well as being an Honorary Fellow of Queen's College, University of Melbourne.

He has published three books, as well as many journal articles, and has also written entries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Contents 1 Life 2 Published Works 2.1 Books 2.1.1 As editor 2.2 Articles in Edited Volumes 2.2.1 Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2.3 Journal Articles

[edit] Life

Wilfrid Prest read history at the University of Melbourne and then studied for his PhD at the University of Oxford. He became a lecturer at the University of Adelaide in 1966. After a few years there, he spent two years as an assistant professor at John Hopkins University, in Baltimore, before returning to the University of Adelaide in 1971, where he remained a member of the history department until July 2002. Between 1978 and 1985, he was also chairman of the Board of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

He currently holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and the School of History and Politics, under an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, and is preparing a biography of William Blackstone.

[edit] Published Works

[edit] Books

• The Inns of Court under Elizabeth I and the Early Stuarts, 1590-1640 (London: Longman, 1972)
• The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar 1590-1640 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
• Albion Ascendant: English History 1660-1815 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998)
• (with Sharyn L.Roach Anleu), Litigation: Past and Present (UNSW Press, 2004)

[edit] As editor

• The Professions in Early Modern England (London: Croom Helm, 1987)
• Lawyers in Early Modern Europe and America (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1981)
• (with Kerrie Round and Carol Susan Fort), The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History (South Australia: Wakefield Press, 2001)

[edit] Articles in Edited Volumes

• "Why the history of professions is not written", in G. Rubin and David Sugarman (eds.), Law, Economy and Society 1750-1914: Essays in the History of English Law (Oxford: Professional Books Ltd., 1984)
• "The experience of litigation in eighteenth-century England", in D. Lemmings (ed.), The British and their Laws in the Eighteenth Century (Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 2005), pp. 133-54
• "Legal Autobiography in Early Modern England", in R. Bedford, L. Davies and P. Kelly (eds.), Early Modern Autobiography: Theories, Genres, Practices (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), pp. 280-94

[edit] Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

• Archer, Sir John (1598–1682), judge
• Ball, Sir Peter (bap. 1598, d. 1680), lawyer and antiquary
• Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780), legal writer and judge
• Bulstrode, Edward (c.1588–1659), judge
• Cook, John (bap. 1608, d. 1660), judge and regicide
• Crewe [Crew], Sir Randolph (bap. 1559, d. 1646), judge
• Denham, Sir John (1559–1639), judge
• Finch, Sir Henry (c.1558–1625), author and lawyer
• Foster, Sir Thomas (1548–1612), judge
• Greene, John (1578–1653), sergeant-at-law
• Harvey, Sir Francis (c.1568–1632), judge and politician
• Hitcham, Sir Robert (bap. 1573, d. 1636), barrister and politician
• Hoskins, John (1566–1638), poet and judge
• Hutton, Sir Richard (bap. 1561, d. 1639), judge
• Hyde, Sir Nicholas (c.1572–1631), barrister and politician
• Hyde, Sir Robert (1595/6–1665), barrister and politician
• Ley, James, first earl of Marlborough (1550–1629), judge and politician
• Malet, Sir Thomas (c.1582–1665), judge and politician
• Moore, Sir Francis (1559–1621), lawyer and politician
• Nicolls, Sir Augustine (1559–1616), judge
• Pagitt, Justinian (1611/12–1668), lawyer and diarist
• Rokeby, Ralph (c.1527–1596), lawyer and administrator
• Walter, Sir John (bap. 1565, d. 1630), judge and politician
• Warburton, Sir Peter (c.1540–1621), judge
• Wilde, Sir William, first baronet (c.1611–1679), judge and politician
• Winch, Sir Humphrey (1554/5–1625), judge

[edit] Journal Articles

• 'Legal Education of the Gentry at the Inns of Court, 1560-1640', Past & Present, 38 (1967): 20-39
• 'Stability and Change in Old and New England: Clayworth and Dedham', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 6 (1976): 359-374
• 'The Dialectical Origins of Finch's Law', Cambridge Law Journal, 36 (1977): 326-352
• 'Judicial Corruption in Early Modern England', Past & Present, 133 (1991): 67-95
• 'Predicting Civil War Allegiances: The Lawyers' Case Considered', Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, 24 (1992): 225-236
• '"One Hawkins, A Female Sollicitor": Women Lawyers in Augustan England', The Huntington Library Quarterly, 57 (1994): 353-358
• 'William Lambarde, Elizabethan Law Reform, and Early Stuart Politics', The Journal of British Studies, 34 (1995): 464-480
• '"To Die in the Term": The Mortality of English Barristers', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26 (1995): 233-249
• 'Blackstone as Architect: Constructing the Commentaries', Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities, 15 (2003): 103-133
• 'Antipodean Blackstone: the Commentaries "Down Under"', Flinders University Journal of Law Reform, 6 (2003): 151-167
• 'The Religion of a Common Lawyer? William Blackstone's Anglicanism', Parergon, 23 (2004): 153-68
• 'Reconstructing the Blackstone Archive: Or, Blundering after Blackstone', Archives, 31 (2006): 108-118