Frederick Stroud

Frederick Stroud (1835 - 1912),[1] barrister and Recorder of Tewkesbury, son of John Stroud of Cheltenham, was born at Cheltenham on 17 October 1835. He was educated at Cheltenham. He was admitted a solicitor in 1863, taking honours at the examination. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in Michaelmas 1883. In 1862, he wrote his County Court Practice in Bankruptcy. He is the author of the "Judicial Dictionary", the first edition of which was published in 1890, the second being published in three volumes, an exhaustive and eminently practical dictionary of the English of affairs by the English Judges and Parliament from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century. It was at Stroud's suggestion that the policy of municipalities for the government of London was adopted.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Stroud, Frederick", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 Jan 2014
  2. ↑ Charles Welch and W T Pike. "Frederick Stroud" in London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Issue 15 of Pike's New Century Series. 1905. Page 307. Google Books.


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