Thom's Irish Who's Who/Strahan, James Andrew

STRAHAN, James Andrew, M.A. (Q.U.I.), LL.B. (R.U.I.); Professor of Jurisprudence University of Belfast from 1909; Reader of Equity, Inns of Court, London from 1897; Examiner in Equity and the Law of Property, University of London. Educ.: Queen's University, Ireland; Royal University; called to Bar, Middle Temple, 1883; Regius Professor of English Law, Queen's College, Belfast, 1886-98; Hon. Counsel to the Institute of Journalists; contested (L.) South Islington, 1900. Pubns.: The Bench and Bar of England, 1919; The Law of Property (6th ed., 1919); The Law of Wills; An Introduction to Conveyancing; Comments on Recent Copyright Cases; Leading Cases in Equity; The Law of Mortgages; Chapters on Equity in Stephen's Commentaries on the Laws of England; Editor of Ashburner's Principles of Equity; Joint Author of Strahan and Kenrick's Digest of Equity; Strahan and Oldham's Copyright Act, 1911; Strahan and Oldham's Law of Partnership; Underbill and Strahan's Interpretation of Wills; Fisher and Strahan's Law of the Press; Macassey and Strahan's Law of Civil Engineers, etc.; has contributed many articles, etc., to the Law Quarterly, Law Magazine and Review, Law Times, Blackwood's Magazine, Truth, Chambers's Journal, etc.; Author, under the pen name of Andrew James, of Ninety-Eight and Sixty Years After, 1911. Recns.: walking, travel, and literature; fifth son of John Strahan, of Belfast: b. Carrickfergus, 29th Jan., 1858; m. 1888, Emma, only child of Baron P. Von Ferglas and granddau. of Sir H. Dryden, Bart., of Canons Ashby, Northants, and has issue one dau. Res.: 1 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London W.C; 23 Kensington Mansions, Earl's Court, London S.W.5. Club: Athenæum.