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He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge (senior classic, 1853; fellow, 1854). From 1866 to 1868 he was professor of Jurisprudence at University College, London , and from 1872 to 1874 commissioner of endowed schools. From 1890 to 1895 he was member of parliament in the Liberal interest for the Eccles division of Lancashire . The book by which he is perhaps best known is his ''Grammar of the Latin Language from Plautus to Suetonius '', a storehouse of illustrative quotations from Latin literature, but his most important works deal with Roman law--''Introduction to Justinian's Digest'' (1884), and ''Roman Private Law'' (1902). |
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