C. H. S. Fifoot

Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot, FBA (1899 – 31 January 1975) was a British legal scholar.[1]

Life and career

Fifoot was born in Penarth, near Cardiff, the son of Sydney Fifoot, manager of the Great Western Colliery Company. He was educated at Berkhamsted School, and was then commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1917, aged 18. He was sent to France, where he was injured in July 1918, leaving him partially deaf. He then attended Exeter College, Oxford, where he took a First in Jurisprudence.

He was called to the bar by the Middle Temple in 1922, and began to practice in South Wales. In 1924, however, he gave up legal practice and accepted a tutorial fellowship at Hertford College, Oxford, where he remained a fellow until 1959. He was elected an honorary fellow in 1962.

He was University Lecturer in Law from 1930 until 1945, when he was appointed All Souls Reader in English Law. He was Reader in Common Law to the Inns of Court from 1954 to 1967. He was Bursar of Hertford College from 1926 to 1934 and Dean from 1940 to 1944. He was also the University's Senior Proctor from 1935 to 1936.

His only son, Richard Fifoot, was Bodley's Librarian from 1979 to 1981.

References

  1. ↑ Cheshire, Geoffrey. "C. H. S. Fifoot, 1899–1975" (PDF). Proceedings of the British Academy. 61: 429–437.
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