STUDY AT CAMBRIDGE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26779, 24 May 1948, Page 4

STUDY AT CAMBRIDGE

HUMANITARIAN TRUST' FUND

SON OF GORE MINISTER P.A. WELLINGTON, May 21. A scholarship for study at Cambridge University has been awarded to Mr G. P. Barton, 23-year-old Wellington barrister and solicitor, who completed his B.A. and LL.B. degrees at Victoria College last year, and was also awarded a senior scholarship in constitutional law, conflicts of laws, and. public international law. The Cambridge scholarship is a new one, entitled the Humanitarian Trust Fund Studentship in Public International Law. Mr Barton understands that he is the first recipient, and that only one award is made each year. The scholarship is open to candidates with degrees from universities within the British Commonwealth or Empire, the” United States, the Continent of Europe, the U.S.S.R.. the Hebrew University at Jerusalem, or any other university approved by the board of electors, who allot the studentship. Mr Barton is a son of the Rev. Frazer Barton, of Gore. He was dux of the Gore High School in 1940, won a junior university entrance scholarship the following year, and entered the University of Otago in 1942 at the age of 16. While there he won a Knox College scholarship and the James Clark prize in Greek. In 1945 he transferred to Victoria College, where he won the Butterworth Prize in Roman law.