William Stallybrass

William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (formerly Sonnenschein, 1883–1948) was a barrister, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford from 1936,^[1] and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1947, just before his death.^[2]

He was colloquially known as "Sonners" at Oxford University due to his former name, Sonnenschein.

Stallybrass died unexpected in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near Iver station in Buckinghamshire.^[3] He was almost blind at the time.

Books

The Pocket Emerson, edited by W. T. S. Sonnenschein (1909)
A Society of States; or, sovereignty, independence, and equality in a League of Nations (1918)
The Buccaneers of America, translation of 1684–5 (with facsimiles of the original engravings), revised and edited by W. Stallybrass, et al. (1923)
The Law of Torts, 8th edition (1934)

References

^ Principals — list of past and present, Brasenose College, Oxford.
^ H. G. Hanbury, Stallybrass, William Teulon Swan (1883–1948), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36235
^ Article, Time, 8 November 1948.

External links

Books from Amazon.co.uk by William Teulon Swan Sonnenschein.
Information from the National Portrait Gallery (London).

Academic offices
Preceded by Charles Henry Sampson	Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford 1936–1948	Succeeded by Hugh Macilwain
Preceded by Sir Richard Winn Livingstone	Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University 1947–1948	Succeeded by The Very Reverend John Lowe

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Name	Stallybrass, William Teulon Swan
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Date of birth	1883
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Date of death	1948
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