HAMSON, Professor Charles John Joseph (1905-1987)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0099 KCLMA Hamson
Held at	: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma ›
Full title	: HAMSON, Professor Charles John Joseph (1905-1987)
Date(s)	: Created 1941-1945
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	:

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

1 volume

Conditions governing access:

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

Conditions governing reproduction:

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.

Finding aids:

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.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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

Allied Materials

Related material:

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

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

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Date(s) of descriptions:
Aug 1996