David Yale

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David Eryl Corbet Yale, FBA, Hon. QC (31 March 1928 – 26 June 2021) was a scholar in the history of English law. He was Reader in English legal history at Cambridge University from 1969 to 1993, and was a life fellow at Christ's College from 1950 until his death.[1][2]

The son of an Army colonel, Yale was raised in British India and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge where he studied law. Upon graduating in 1949 with a starred first and then completing a postgraduate LLB in 1950, he was elected a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge from 1952 until his promotion to a readership in 1969.[3] He was a former Literary Director and President of the Selden Society (the latter from 1994 to 1997[3]), which in 1999 instituted the David Yale Prize in his honour, awarded biennially to a young scholar (under the age of 35) for a distinguished contribution to the laws and legal institutions of England and Wales.

Yale was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1980 and was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel for England and Wales in 2000.[3]

He died on 26 June 2021, at the age of 93.[4]

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  1. ^ "Mr David Yale FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. ^ "David Eryl Corbet Yale". Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Yale, David Eryl Corbet", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  4. ^ Griffiths, Malcolm (29 June 2021). "Yale, David Eryl Corbet Hon QC FBA". The Telegraph Announcements. The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 June 2021.

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