Thomas Erskine HOLLAND

Background

HOLLAND, Thomas Erskine was born on July 17, 1835. Son of Reverend T. A. Holland, Rector of Poynings, Sussex.

Education

Studied at Brighton College. Balliol and Magdalen Colleges, Oxford. Demy of Magdalen; 1st Class, final classical school.

Doctor of Laws.

Career

Fellow of Exeter College. Chancellor’s Prizeman. Barrister Lincoln’s Inn, 1863.

Vinerian Reader in English Law, 1874.

Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, 1874-1910. Assessor of the Chancellor’s Court, 1876-1910.

Doctor of Civil Law Oxford. Honourable Doctor of Laws Bologna, Glasgow, Dublin, Brussels.

Fellow of the British Academy.

Associate Royal Academy of Belgium. Honourable Professor in the University of Perugia. 981 Honourable Member of the University of Saint St. Petersburg, of the Juridical Society of Berlin, of the Royal Academies of Bologna and Padua, and of the American Society of International Law.

Member of the Institute of International Law.

Commander of the Order of the Crown of Italy. Grand Commander of the Rising Sun of Japan.

Member of the Royal Commission on the Supply of Food, et cetera, in Time of War, 1903-1905. British Plenipotentiary at the Geneva Conference, 1900.

Bencher, Lincoln’slnn, 1907. King’s Counsel 1901; Doctorate. Commander of Order of Leopold.

Membership

Club: Athemeum.

• Club : Athemeum.

Connections

Father:

T. A. Holland