DR. STALLYBRASS DEAD

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25638, 29 October 1948, Page 7

DR. STALLYBRASS DEAD

EMINENT BRITISH JURIST BODY FOUND BESIDE RAILWAY (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) * LONDON, Oct. 28. Dr. W. T. S. Stallybrass, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, was found dead beside the railway line near Tver, in Buckinghamshire. It is believed that Dr. Stallybrass was a passenger on the London-Birkenhead train late yesterday. Dr. Stallybrass was 65 years of He was one of the most distinguished of British legal authorities and university administrators. At the time of his death he was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Law Revision Committee and Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple. Last year he was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford, which is the highest office held within the university. Among his posts at the university were those of Reader in Criminal Law and Evidence, lecturer at Oriel and Lincoln Colleges, and examiner in the Honour School of Jurisprudence. In addition to his own writings, mainly in law periodicals, he edited the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth editions of Salmond’s Torts. Dr. Stallybrass’s name, in earlier years was Sonnenschein, which his father, then William Swan Sonnenschein, changed .to Stallybrass in 1917. He was known' as “Sonners” to his Oxford friends and students.