Background
Son of the Review Edmund Martin Geldart, he was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon. Street Paul"s School, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was a scholar and in 1890 won the Gaisford Prize for Greek Verse.
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William Geldart
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He graduated Master of Arts in 1892.
Career
A classical scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, he went on to become Vinerian Professor of English Law at Oxford and a leading jurist of his day. Elected a Fellow of Street John"s College, Oxford, in 1892, he was called to the bar from Lincoln"s Inn in 1896, continuing at Street John"s until 1899. Geldart was the author of the influential Elements of English Law (1907), still in print under the title Introduction to English Law (Oxford University Press, 11th edition, ed David Yardley).
According to one review "Geldart has over the years established itself as the standard account of English law.." The law society of Street Anne"s College, Oxford, is named "The Geldart Society" in Geldart"s honour, and the law library at Street Anne"s College is named after Geldart.
Achievements
Membership
He was Official Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, Oxford, from 1901 to 1909, All Souls Reader in English Law in the University, from 1906 to 1909, and a member of the Hebdomadal Council from 1905.
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British