Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire
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Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, 1946
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| Born | 27 June 1886 |
| Died | 27 October 1978 (aged 92) |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Barrister |
| Notable work | Modern Law of Real Property |
Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, FBA (27 June 1886 – 27 October 1978) was an English barrister, scholar and influential writer on law. He was the father of Leonard Cheshire, VC, the English war hero and founder of the Cheshire Foundation Homes for the Sick.
Born in 1886 to Walter Christopher Cheshire, a solicitor in Northwich, Cheshire, and Clara (née Cook), he was educated at Denstone College and Merton College, Oxford, obtaining a first class honours degree in Jurisprudence in 1908.
He received a Lectureship in Law at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, working for Professor T.A. Levi, but returned to Oxford in 1911, where he was elected to a fellowship in law at Exeter College in 1912.
He served in the First World War, 1914–19, with 2/6 Battalion Cheshire Regt. and the Royal Flying Corps: he retired with the rank of captain.
He became a barrister (Lincoln's Inn) in 1922 and, in the same year took on the additional office of All Souls' Lecturer in Private International Law. He was All Souls reader in English Law, from 1933, and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, from 1944–49. In 1944 he was elected Vinerian Professor of English Law and there followed a succession of other honours: honorary bencher of Lincoln's Inn (1944); honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford (1945); honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford; honorary LLD London and Manchester; and Fellow of the British Academy.
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