Henry William Rawson Wade

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Sir William Wade QC, FBA (16 January 1918–12 March 2004) was a British academic lawyer, best known for his work on the law of real property and administrative law.

[edit] Academic career

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. After a fellowship at Harvard University, he began his career as a civil servant in the Treasury, before being elected to a fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1946. From 1961 to 1976 he was Professor of English Law at Oxford University and a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and from 1978 to 1992 Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at Cambridge University; from 1976 to 1988 he was Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He held the degrees of MA and LLD, and the honorary degree of LittD from Cambridge University.

[edit] Hobbies

"Bill" Wade was an oarsman, mountaineer and a keen gardener in latter years.

[edit] External links

• Obituary by Dr Christopher Forsyth, of the Cambridge Faculty of Law
• Obituary in the Guardian newspaper