Henry Arthur Hollond


Henry Arthur Hollond DSO OBE was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law in the University of Cambridge from 1943 to 18 November 1950. He is author of English Legal Authors Before Blackstone, first published as a periodical article under the title English Legal Authors Before 1700 at 9 Cambridge Law Journal 292, and then reprinted separately in 42 pages by Stevens & Sons Limited in 1947. The work is "short but complete".
He was also author of Frederic William Maitland, 1850-1906: A Memorial Address. He was editor of the Cambridge Studies in English Legal History series.

Private life

He voted against allowing women to gain Cambridge degrees and later married the American academic Marjorie Hollond on 7 September 1929. She was director of studies at two Cambridge colleges and a Cambridge university lecturer in economics. She went on to help the reorganisation in the university in 1948 when women were first allowed to gain a Cambridge degree.