The Eldon Law Scholarship 2013
Interviews for the Eldon Law Scholarship took place at St Hugh’s College on Saturday 4 May. The scholarship was awarded to Charlotte Thomas of Lincoln College.
The Eldon Law Scholarship is awarded by the Law Faculty each year to a person, with a first or a distinction in an Oxford undergraduate or postgraduate degree, who is about to embark on a career at the Bar. From those applying, a shortlist of candidates is drawn up to be interviewed by the Eldon Law Scholarship Committee and the award is made to the person who, in the opinion of the committee, is likely to make the best barrister.
The scholarship dates back to 1830. John Scott, the first Lord Eldon (1751–1838) studied at University College, Oxford in the late 1760s and was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1776. He was Lord Chancellor between 1801 and 1806 and 1807 and 1827. On 12 May 1830, at a meeting of subscribers responding to a public advertisement, with the Duke of Richmond in the chair, it was resolved to establish an Eldon Law Scholarship at the University of Oxford which was to be ‘at once creditable to the subscribers and honourable to the Earl of Eldon’. A sum of £7,631.9s.5d was raised. The award for the 2012 scholar is £14,500 spread over two years.
Famous Eldon Scholars included in 1834 R Palmer (Earl of Selbourne), in 1859 H Davey (Lord Davey), in 1921 AT Denning (Lord Denning) and in 1930 RO Wilberforce (Lord Wilberforce).
Those who have received the award since 1919
1919 Not offered
1920 G C Faber, All Souls College
Gordon Alchin, Brasenose College
1921 A T Denning, Magdalen College
W E Beckett , All Souls College
1923 C J Radcliffe, All Souls College
1924 J G Foster, All Souls College
J B Blagden, All Souls College
1925 Not offered
1926 D S Danreuther, Balliol College
1927 Denis Browne, New College
T D D Divine, Queen’s College
1928 Not offered
1929 J H A Sparrow, All Souls College
1930 R O Wilberforce, New College
I I Bowen, All Souls College
1931 Not offered
1932 C H S Preston, New College
1933 J H C Morris, Christ Church
1934 Not offered
1935 JE S Fawcett, New College
1936 J W R Harris, Brasenose College
1937 T B Smith, Christ Church
1938 R Blake, Magdalen College
1946 Not offered
1947 Not offered
1948 JW Bourne, New College
1949 R A Blackburn, Magdalen College
A R Barrowclough, New College
W A N Wells, Magdalen College
1950 C J Slade, New College
D A Barker, Queen’s College
1951 R I Kidwell, Magdalen College
F P Neill, Magdalen College
1952 Dick Taverne, Balliol College
1953 E G Nugee, Worcester College
1954 No election
1955 H C Tayler, Balliol College
1956 J D Feltham, Magdalen College
1957 T H Bingham, Balliol College
1958 R K Bain, Magdalen College
1959 C D R Rose, Wadham College
1960 R O Havery, Magdalen College
1961 Paul M Miller, Exeter College
1963 D T A Davies, Magdalen College
1964 R B Mawrey, Magdalen College
1965 D W Keene, Balliol College
1966 C H McCall, Magdalen College
1967 N A R Wilson, Worcester College
1968 P N Legh-Jones, New College
1969 T E Walker, University College
1970 M C C Hart, Magdalen College
J L Munby, Wadham College
1971 B N R Reynolds, Worcester College
1972 G J S Hill, Exeter College
1973 Sonia R S Proudman, Lady Margaret Hall
1974 Stephen M Tomlinson, Worcester College
1975 Gabriel S Mosony, St Catherine's College [Gabriel Moss]
1976 No election
1977 C E L Turnbull, Worcester College
1978 P H Gross, Oriel College
1979 M M Pascoe, Christ Church
1980 P J Walker, Magdalen College
1981 R C Thomas, St John’s College
1982 N A Hamblen, St John’s College
1983 R E Cox, Mansfield College
1984 C G Nugee, Corpus Christi College
J M A Dagnall, St John's College
1985 S J Berry, Exeter College
1986 P J Sales, Worcester College
1987 Christopher J Butcher, All Souls College
1988 Laurence A Rabinowitz,Merton College
1989 David A Foxton, Magdalen College
1990 Sarah Cockerill, St Anne’s College
David J Bailey, Mansfield College
1991 Nigel T Eaton, Magdalen College
1992 Toby Landau, Merton College
1993 Adam Tolley, St Anne’s College
1994 Philippa Hopkins, Merton College
1995 Simon Salzedo, Keble College
1996 Andrew Thomas, Balliol College
1997 Martin D Chamberlain, University College
1998 Christopher Lewis, University College
1999 Colin Thomann, Mansfield College
2000 James S Cutress, Worcester College
2001 Edward Sawyer, Lincoln College
2002 Joanne Clement, Somerville College
2003 Paul Toms, Brasenose College
2004 David J Murray, Christ Church
2005 Iain T Steele, Magdalen College
2006 James R McClelland, Merton College
2007 Rupert Allen, Merton College
2008 Paul C Adams, St Catherine’s
2009 T A Qudsi Rasheed, Worcester College
2010 Andrew J Scott, All Souls College
2011 Alistair Mills, Trinity College
2012 Yaaser Vanderman, Keble College
2013 Charlotte Thomas, Lincoln College