Author: D. Martin ClitheroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Impressions of David Hughes Parry
Author: D. Martin ClitheroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
David Hughes Parry
Author: R. Gwynedd ParryPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 070832293X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Sir David Hughes Parry QC was probably one of the most powerful and influential Welsh jurists of the twentieth century. As Professor of English Law at the University of London, he laid the foundations for the development of the Department of Law at the London School and Economics into a centre of excellence in legal scholarship. As founding Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, he created a vehicle that would raise the standing of English legal scholarship on the global stage. An astute operator in the world of university politics, he became Vice-Chancellor and, later, Chairman of the Court of the University of London, and served as Vice-Chairman of the powerful University Grants Committee. For the first time, this study provides a holistic account of his career as a lawyer, legal scholar, university policy-maker and law reformer. Using a range of primary and secondary sources, it locates his place in the history of legal scholarship and establishes his identity as a jurist. It also considers his distinctive and sometimes controversial contribution to the public life of Wales, and in particular its language, culture and institutions. The portrait that emerges is of a man whose energies were divided equally between his legal-academic interests and his devotion to serving the causes of his native Wales. This biography demonstrates that it was through his roles as a public intellectual and legal advisor to the Welsh nation that Hughes Parry bequeathed his most important and enduring legacies.
Looking for Mr. Nobody
Author: Jenny ReesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351320505
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) was one of the most gifted and promising figures in the constellation of British poets, journalists, and intellectuals of the 1930s that included Louis MacNeice, W. H., Auden, C. Day Lewis, Isaiah Berlin, and Anthony Blunt. Like many liberals of his generation, he was shocked by the effects of the Depression and correspondingly sympathetic to the Communist regime in Russia. Guy Burgess, of the Cambridge spies--Burgess, Maclean, Philby, and Blunt, admitted his espionage to Rees. His association with Burgess was to blight the rest of Rees's life. When Burgess defected in 1951, and Rees denounced him to MI5, Rees was viewed more as a spy out to save his own skin than as an honorable citizen. His anonymous, sensationalist articles in The People, denouncing Burgess's political activities and all but naming names, condemned him with the British intellectual community--not for his politics but for his betrayal of a friend. Colleagues and acquaintances accused him of trying to initiate a McCarthyite witch-hunt. He lost his job. His academic career was ruined. In Looking for Mr. Nobody, Jenny Rees deals with many of the old charges made against her father in her search for the answer to her own question, "Was he, too, a spy?" Had he joined up with Burgess and Blunt and passed secrets to the Soviet Union? Her quest for the truth reveals a fascinating portrait of a brilliant but flawed man of letters, handsome and seductively charming, caught up in the radical, political commitments of the 1930s, Communist Party membership, and his tortured relationship with the notorious Cambridge spies.
David Hughes
Author: David HughesPublisher: Kerber Verlag
ISBN: 9783933040923
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : de
Pages : 0
Book Description
Artwork by David Hughes. Edited by Hans Joachim Neyer.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
Diary of David Hughes
Author: David HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Accounts and notations of David Hughes, a farmer from Deerfield, N.Y., 1849-1852. Includes entries concerning farm procedures, canal horses, and paying tolls, attending church and funerals, weather, and selling eggs and other farm produce. Numerous references to Utica and the Welsh church there.
Parry and Clark on the Law of Succession
Author: Sir David Hughes ParryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Osborne-Pate
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.