Men-at-the-Bar/Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner
Maine, Sir Henry James Sumner, K.C.S.I. 20 May, 1871, D.C.L., LL.D. 1847, F.R.S., master of Trinity Hall, Camb., since 1877, M.A. 1847, B.A., Pembroke Coll., Camb., 1844, member of the Council of Legal Education, law member of the council of governor-general of India 1862-70, member of council of secretary of state for India since 1871, fellow (member of senate) London Univ. 13 July, 1871, reader of jurisprudence and civil law to Inns of Court 1854-62, professor of jurisprudence at Oxford Univ. 1874-5, Rede lecturer at Cambridge 1875, regius professor of civil law Camb. Univ. 1847-54, author of Ancient Law, Village Communities, and Early History of Institutions, etc., a student of Lincoln's Inn 4 June, 1847 (then aged 24), called to the bar 11 June, 1850, admitted a barrister of the Middle Temple ad eundem 4 Oct., 1862, bencher 21 Nov., 1873 (eldest son of James Maine, M.D., of the province of Hindostan, dec.); born , 1823; married 21 Dec., 1847, Jane, 2nd dau. of George Maine, Esq., of Kelso, N.B. (see Foster's Baronetage).
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