Eldon Law Scholarship
The Eldon Law Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to students from the University of Oxford who wish to study for the English Bar. Applicants must either have obtained a first class honours degree in the Final Honours School, or obtained a distinction on the BCL or MJur.[1] It is a two-year scholarship presently funded at £9,000 a year.[2]
The Earl of Eldon
History
The scholarship dates from 12 May 1830, and was funded in response to an application from subscribers.[3][4] Although the scholarship is named after Lord Eldon LC, it is not funded from his will – Lord Eldon did not in fact die until eight years after the scholarship was founded.[4] The first trustees included the Duke of Richmond, Earl of Mansfield, Earl of Romney and Lord Arden.[3]
Until 1963 it was a requirement that an applicant be a member of the Church of England. In 1963 that was downgraded to a preference, and in 1983 the requirement was dropped entirely.[3]
Past winners
Past winners include:[5]
- Herman Merivale (1831), civil servant and historian[6]
- Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne (1834), Lord Chancellor[7]
- Arthur Kensington (1837), Fellow of Trinity
- Thomas Henry Haddan (1840), founder of The Guardian
- Edward Karslake (1843), barrister and politician[8]
- Ralph Lingen, 1st Baron Lingen (1846), civil servant.[9]
- John Conington (1849), classical scholar (who gave up the scholarship)[10]
- Sir George Osborne Morgan (1851), barrister and politician.[11]
- Sir Robert Herbert (1854), first Premier of Queensland, Australia[12]
- Montague Hughes Cookson (later Crackanthorpe), KC (1856), Fellow of St John's[13]
- Horace Davey, Baron Davey (1859), Law Lord
- Sir Henry Alexander Giffard (1861), barrister and Bailiff of Guernsey
- John Mott Maidlow (1864), barrister
- Sir Courtenay Ilbert (1867), lawyer and civil servant[14]
- Alfred Barratt (1870), philosopher
- John Gent (1872), Fellow of Trinity
- Arthur Godley, 1st Baron Kilbracken (1874), civil servant[15]
- James Eastwick (1876), barrister and legal scholar
- Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner (1878), politician and colonial administrator
- Charles Ashworth James (1881), barrister and fellow of Hertford
- Albert Thomas Carter (1884)
- Francis William Pember (1887), lawyer and academic, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford[16]
- George Russell Northcote (1888), barrister
- Sir Frederick Liddell, KC (1892), civil servant.[17]
- Alfred Hazel MP[18]
- Murray Coutts-Trotter, Chief Justice of Madras High Court
- Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland (1899), politician
- Raymond Asquith (1902), barrister[19]
- Sir John Behan (1906), lawyer and educationist[20]
- Patrick Shaw-Stewart, banker and war poet[21]
- Lord Asquith of Bishopstone (1913), Law Lord
- Professor Sir Carleton Allen (1913), law professor and Warden of Rhodes House
- Sir Geoffrey Faber (1920), academic and publisher
- Gordon Alchin (1920), poet.[5]
- Sir Eric Beckett (1921), legal adviser to the Foreign Office
- Lord Denning (1921), Law Lord and Master of the Rolls[22]
- Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe (1923), Law Lord
- Lord Wilberforce (1930), Law Lord.[5]
- Ivor Ian Bowen (1930), lawyer and economist[23]
- J.H.C. Morris (1933), academic[24]
- Sir James Fawcett (1935), President of the European Commission for Human Rights[25]
- Sir Thomas Smith, QC (1937), barrister and academic
- Robert Blake, Baron Blake (1938), historian
- Sir Wilfrid Bourne (1948), Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Office
- Sir Richard Blackburn (1949), Australian judge
- Sir Christopher Slade (1950), Lord Justice of Appeal.[5]
- Edward Nugee, QC (1953), barrister[26]
- Lord Bingham (1957), Law Lord and Master of the Rolls[27]
- Sir Christopher Rose (1959), Lord Justice of Appeal [5]
- Richard Mawrey, KC (1964), barrister
- Sir David Keene (1965), Lord Justice of Appeal [5]
- Nicholas Wilson, Lord Wilson of Culworth (1967), Supreme Court judge [5]
- Sir James Munby (1970), President of the Family Division.[5]
- Dame Sonia Proudman (1973), High Court judge.[5]
- Sir Stephen Tomlinson (1974), Lord Justice of Appeal[5]
- Gabriel Moss KC (1975), barrister.[5]
- Nicholas Hamblen, Lord Hamblen of Kersey (1982), Justice of the UK Supreme Court[28]
- Sir Christopher Nugee (1984), High Court judge.[5]
- Lord Sales, Philip Sales (1986) Justice of the UK Supreme Court.[5]
- Sir Christopher Butcher (1987), High Court judge.[5]
- Laurence Rabinowitz, KC (1988), barrister[29]
- Sir David Foxton (1989), High Court judge.[5]
- Dame Sara Cockerill (1990), High Court judge and Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court.[5][30]
- Sir Martin Chamberlain (1997), High Court judge.[5]
- Andrew Scott, KC (2009), barrister[31]
- Frederick Wilmot-Smith (2018), barrister
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- Andrew Scott KC
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