Vinerian Professor of English Law

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The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to establish a Professorship of the Common Law in that University, as well as a number of Vinerian scholarships and readerships.

The holders of the Chair since its foundation are the following:

  1. 1758 - 1766 William Blackstone (1723-1780)
  2. 1766 - 1777 Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803)
  3. 1777 - 1793 Richard Wooddeson (1745-1822)
  4. 1793 - 1824 James Blackstone (c1765-1831) (son of William Blackstone above)
  5. 1824 - 1843 Philip Williams (1780-1843)
  6. 1844 - 1880 John Robert Kenyon (1807-80)
  7. 1882 - 1909 Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922)
  8. 1909 - 1922 William Martin Geldart (1870-1922)
  9. 1922 - 1944 William Searle Holdsworth (1871-1944)
  10. 1944 - 1949 Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (1886-1978)
  11. 1949 - 1964 Harold Greville Hanbury (1898-1993)
  12. 1964 - 1979 Rupert (A.R.N.) Cross (1912-80)
  13. 1979 - 1997 Guenter Treitel
  14. 1997 - Andrew Ashworth (b. 1947)


  • Hanbury, Harold Grenville, 1958. "The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education", Oxford: OUP.
  • Oxford University calendars passim
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