Antony Heald is a lawyer based in London, England, who worked as a partner at the law firm Theodore Goddard. He was admitted to the bar in England in 1960 and holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford.
Background
Antony Heald's formal education and professional training took place in England. He studied at the University of Oxford and was later admitted to the bar in England, a qualification that in England is conferred through the Inns of Court.
The Inns of Court are four professional societies in London, namely Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, Inner Temple and Middle Temple. They are the bodies legally permitted to call candidates to the Bar of England and Wales, so admission to the bar in that period meant that a candidate had passed through one of these institutions.
Education
Heald holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford. The abbreviation Oxon. used in his record is the Latin form of the university's name, Universitas Oxoniensis.
The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. Teaching there is evidenced as early as 1096, which makes it the oldest university in the English-speaking world. It is a federation of more than forty self-governing colleges and halls, and this collegiate structure shaped how its students lived and studied.
Career
Heald was admitted to the bar in England in 1960. His legal career combined that admission with work as a partner at Theodore Goddard, a London law firm.
Theodore Goddard was founded in 1902 by the English solicitor John Theodore Goddard. It began as a litigation practice on the London court circuit and attracted the newly created office of the Public Trustee as a client. The firm moved in 1917 to Sergeant's Inn in the Temple area of London, and by 1946 it had eight partners.
The firm merged with Addleshaw Booth & Co in 2003 to form Addleshaw Goddard, which ended Theodore Goddard as an independent practice.
