Henry Harvey (lawyer)
Henry Harvey LL.D. (died 1585) was an English lawyer, who became Master of
Life
He was son of Robert Harvey of Stradbroke, Suffolk. and Joan, his wife. He was educated at Trinity Hall, where he took the degree of LL.B. in 1538, and became LL.D. in 1542.[1][2]
On 27 January 1550 he was admitted an advocate at Doctors' Commons. He gained a reputation as an ecclesiastical lawyer, and was appointed vicar-general of his diocese by
In 1567 Harvey procured a lease of the premises in London which, as Doctor's Commons, became the central stronghold of ecclesiastical lawyers. Trinity Hall had control of the buildings and chambers; and these rights, though rendered terminable in 1728, were not abandoned until the incorporation of Doctor's Commons in 1768.[3]
Notes
- ^ "Harvey, Henry (HRVY538H)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b Venables 1891.
- ^ a b Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Cambridge and Its Colleges (1910), pp. 99-100.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Venables, Edmund (1891). "Harvey, Henry (d.1585)". In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 87–88.
