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Geoffrey Cheshire

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344:, published initially in 1925, became the standard text on the subject. This work has remained in print ever since and, updated by Burn and Cartwright, is now in its 17th edition. (Modern Law of Real Property, E.H. Burn & J.H.Cartwright, O.U.P. 17th Ed. 2006). Generations of students have also studied "The Law of Contract", first written in conjunction with the legal historian 410: 38: 565: 585: 303:
of Lincoln's Inn (1944); honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1945); honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; honorary LLD London and Manchester; and
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He married Burella Primrose Eleanor Barstow, daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Anderson Adam Barstow, on 6 February 1915. They had two children:
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and Christopher Cheshire, who was also a wartime pilot. In 1963, a year after the death of his first wife, Geoffrey Cheshire married
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described him as "the first academic lawyer to tackle the great reforms in the law of property associated with the name of
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The Vinerian Chair and legal education, Harold Greville Hanbury, Blackwell, 1958, pg 241
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in 1945, and in its 15th Edition (Law of Contract, Cheshire, Fifoot and
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and there followed a succession of other honours: honorary
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The English Private Internationale Law of Husband and Wife
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Oxford: Basil Blackwell. p. 46. 208:Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick 566:British Army personnel of World War I 7: 586:Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford 435:. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. 395:Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (1964). 362:Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (1925). 571:People educated at Denstone College 376:Cheshire, Private International Law 621:Vinerian Professors of English Law 238:) of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion, 14: 581:Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford 518:Vinerian Professor of English Law 491:Merton College Register 1900–1964 297:Vinerian Professor of English Law 576:Alumni of Merton College, Oxford 556:Military personnel from Cheshire 408: 330:Geoffrey Cheshire's obituary in 129:Burella Primrose Eleanor Barstow 365:The Modern Law of Real Property 164: 139: 596:Fellows of the British Academy 373:Geoffrey G. Chevalier (1935). 1: 305:Fellow of the British Academy 16:British barrister (1886-1978) 626:20th-century English lawyers 489:Levens, R.G.C., ed. (1964). 601:Royal Flying Corps officers 342:Modern Law of Real Property 312:(Geoffrey) Leonard Cheshire 189:Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire 113:Modern Law of Real Property 25:Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire 642: 561:Cheshire Regiment officers 368:. Butterworth and Company. 352:, O.U.P., 15th Ed. 2007). 524: 515: 511:William Searle Holdsworth 507: 502: 293:All Souls College, Oxford 35: 606:Members of Lincoln's Inn 429:Richard Morris (2001). 390:. Butterworth & CŒ. 340:", and his first book, 616:English legal scholars 248:Merton College, Oxford 87:Merton College, Oxford 591:People from Northwich 387:The Law of Contract 326:Contribution to Law 611:English barristers 379:. 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Index

FBA

Merton College, Oxford
Lincoln's Inn
Barrister
Mary Lloyd
Leonard
FBA
barrister
Leonard Cheshire
Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick
Northwich
Cheshire
solicitor
Registrar
Lieutenant Colonel
Cheshire Regiment
Denstone College
Merton College, Oxford
Jurisprudence
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Exeter College
First World War
Royal Flying Corps
barrister
Lincoln's Inn
All Souls
All Souls College, Oxford
Vinerian Professor of English Law
bencher

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