This collection mainly comprises notebooks which he kept as a student at Aberystwyth and Oxford from lectures given by Professors W.J. Brown, Henry Goudy, and Paul Vinogradoff, chiefly on Roman law.
Papers of John David Ivor Hughes
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- ReferenceGB 206 MS 428
- Dates of Creation1904-ca.1935
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- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description28 items in 2 boxes
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Administrative / Biographical History
John David Ivor Hughes was born in Nottingham in 1885. He attended Nottingham High School and in 1904 went to Aberystwyth to attend lectures in law with a view to qualifying as a barrister. He soon moved to London and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1910. In 1911 he went up to Balliol and took a first in law in 1914. He then read for a B.C.L., which he took in 1915, and was awarded the Vinerian Scholarship. During the First World War he served with a Friends' Ambulance Unit and in 1919 was appointed professor of law at Leeds, where he remained until his retirement in 1951. He died in 1969.
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Transferred from printed books (University of Leeds collection), August 1978
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In English
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Contents described in Handlist 39