David Yale

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 Lieutenant Colonel John Corbert Yale (1898-1941), he was raised in British India and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied law.[3] His grandfather was Colonel James Corbet Yale of the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery, and lived at Plas yn Yale, Wales.[4] 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.[5] He was a former Literary Director and President of the Selden Society (the latter from 1994 to 1997[5]), 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.[5]

He died on 26 June 2021, at the age of 93.[6]

References
  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. "Biography: Mr David Eryl Corbet Yale". Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  4. "LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN CORBET LOVE YALE Service Number: 1143". Retrieved 21 November 2022.
  5. "Yale, David Eryl Corbet", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  6. 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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