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(Statutes and Their Interpretation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century ) Author: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett May-2010

Statutes & their Interpretation in the First half of the Fourteenth Century by Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett (2009-10-28)

A Concise History of the Common Law by Theodore Plucknett (2010-12-31)

Concise History of the Common Law by Theodore F. T. Plucknett (2010-11-19)

(A Concise History of the Common Law ) Author: Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett Oct-2010

Statutes and their Interpretation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century by Theodore F. T. Plucknett (2013-09-26)

A Concise History of the Common Law. Fifth Edition. by Theodore F. T. Plucknett (2010-10-13)

Theodore Plucknett

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Background

Plucknett was born on 2 January 1897 in Bristol.

Education

Plucknett completed his early education at Alderman Newton"s School in Leicester and then Bacup and Rawstenstall school in Newchurch, Lancaster. He completed his degree in history at London University and graduated with second class honours. He later completed his masters at University College London before his twenty-first birthday.

Foreign his masters Plucknett"s speciality was the fifteenth-century council.

He would later go on to write his Philosophy Doctor thesis on Statutes and their Interpretation in the First Half of the Fourteenth Century. He received his Philosophy Doctor from Emmanuel College, Cambridge and studied under the tutorship of H. Doctorate. Hazeltine.

With Plucknett"s Philosophy Doctor came an Bachelor of Laws degree, which helped him get into Harvard Law School. Whilst studying at Harvard he took no courses, and instead only studied.

Career

He was also awarded the Alexander prize of the Royal Historical Society. He arrived at the school as a student in 1920 and by 1923 was an instructor. By 1926 he had graduated to an assistant professor

A position he held until 1931.

Plucknett then left Harvard for the London School of Economics after he received a recommendation from Harold Laski, who had been impressed by Plucknett"s recent publication, The book had been dictated and edited in a matter of weeks. When Plucknett arrived at the London School of Economics, he became the first ever holder of the school"s chair of legal history.

He was to remain in that position until his retirement in 1963. In 1950 Plucknett was awarded a fellowship at University College London and in 1950 he was made an honorary fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He also received honorary degrees from both Glasgow University, Birmingham University and Cambridge.

In later life colleagues would describe Plucknett as "distant". He maintained the history of law had nothing to do with its practical application and was quoted as saying that "lieutenant is still too often said that English law can only be understood historically. Now English law may be bad, but is it really as bad as that?" Plucknett officially retired from teaching in 1963 due to poor health and died at his home in Crescent Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 on 14 February 1965.