GB 0099 KCLMA Hamson - HAMSON, Professor Charles John Joseph (1905-1987)

1 volume

GB 0099 KCLMA Hamson Created 1941-1945 Collection (fonds) 1 volume

Born in 1905; educated at Downside School and Trinity College, Cambridge; Assistant Lecturer in Law, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1932; Lecturer, 1934; commissioned in Army and detached for service with Special Operations Executive, 1940; sent to Crete to plan clandestine operations and prepare for resistance in event of German invasion, 1940-1941; POW, Germany, 1941-1945; Reader in Comparative Law, 1949; Professor of Comparative Law, 1955-1973, specialising in the comparison of English and French Law; elected Bencher of Grey's Inn, 1956, and Treasurer, 1975; Queen's Counsel, 1975; died in 1987.

Presented to the Centre by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1989.

Liber in vinculis or the Mock Turtle's adventure, a meditation on his life and career, with particular reference to the Battle of Crete, 1941, written as a POW in Germany, 1941-1945, and including a short essay on the Battle of Crete, 1941, by Dr Mark Mazower, privately published by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1989.

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.
English

Summary guide entry on-line ay http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

Original manuscript held by Trinity College, Cambridge.

Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library holds correspondence with Arthur Lehman Goodhart (Ref: MSS Eng c 2886).

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Presented to the Centre by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1989.

Liber in vinculis or the Mock Turtle's adventure, a meditation on his life and career, with particular reference to the Battle of Crete, 1941, written as a POW in Germany, 1941-1945, and including a short essay on the Battle of Crete, 1941, by Dr Mark Mazower, privately published by Trinity College, Cambridge in 1989.

1 volume

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

• English

• Latin

English

Department of Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library holds correspondence with Arthur Lehman Goodhart (Ref: MSS Eng c 2886).

Summary guide entry on-line ay http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm,and detailed catalogue available in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

• English