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Sir Erskine Holland

British legal scholar
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Also known as: Sir Thomas Erskine Holland
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Born:
July 17, 1835, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.
Died:
May 24, 1926, Oxford (aged 90)
Notable Works:
“Elements of Jurisprudence”

Sir Erskine Holland (born July 17, 1835, Brighton, Sussex, Eng.—died May 24, 1926, Oxford) was an English legal writer and teacher of international law whose outstanding work, Elements of Jurisprudence, underwent 13 editions from 1880 to 1924. Educated at Brighton College and at Balliol and Magdalen colleges, Oxford, Holland was called to the bar in 1863, and from 1874 to 1910 he was professor of international law and diplomacy at Oxford. In 1885 he helped to found the Law Quarterly Review. He was British plenipotentiary at the Geneva Conference of 1906. He was knighted in 1917. Holland’s edition (1877) of ...(100 of 179 words)

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