E. C. S. Wade

The son of Charles Stewart Douglas Wade, Wade was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took Firsts in both parts of the Law Tripos. During the First World War he served with the Royal Garrison Artillery with the British Salonika Force. In 1920 he was elected a scholar of Gonville and Caius College, and won the Whewell Scholarship in International Law in 1922. He was then called to the bar at the Inner Temple.[1]

Wade practised at the bar in London and Newscastle, and lectured in Law Armstrong College, Durham (now Newcastle University), becoming its Vice-Principal in 1924 and Principal in 1926. In 1928 he returned to Cambridge as a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge and University Lecturer. In 1931 he returned to Gonville and Caius College as a fellow. During World War II Wade first served in a London anti-aircraft brigade, before being transferred to the War Cabinet Secretariat and subsequently the Home Office.[1]

In 1945 Wade was elected Downing Professor of the Laws of England, holding the post until his retirement in 1962.[1] In 1962–63 he was Hinkley Visiting Professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Wade's most famous work is Constitutional Law, commonly known as 'Wade and Phillips',which was first published in 1931 and which went through ten editions during his lifetime. He also edited A. V. Dicey's The Law of the Constitution, publishing new editions in 1939 and 1959.[1]