Noted British Jurist Killed

Grey River Argus, 30 October 1948, Page 8

Noted British Jurist Killed

LONDON, October 28. Dr. W. T. S. Stallybrass, principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, was found dead beside the railway line near Inver, in Buckinghamshire. It is believed that Dr. Stallybrass was a passenger on the London-Birken-head train late yesterday. Dr. Stallybrass was 65 years of age. 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 Division Committee and Honorary Master of tne Bench of the Inner Temple. Lr<;t year he was Vice-Chancellor of Oxford which is the highest office held within the university. His posts at the university were those of Reader in Criminal Law and Evidence, Lelcurer ai Oriel and Lincoln Colleges and examiner in the Honour School of Jurisprudence. In addition to his own writings, mainly in new periodicals, he edited the seventh, eighth and 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 os “Sonnets” to his Oxford friends and students.

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