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Henry Bond (Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

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Henry Bond, LL.D (born Cambridge 19 September 1853 – died Cambridge 6 June 1938) was an academic in the second half of the 19th century and first decades of the 20th.[1]

Bond was educated at Amersham Hall School, University College, London and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he spent the rest of his career.[2] He was Scholar in 1875; Chancellor's Medallist in 1877; Called to the Bar in 1883; appointed Lecturer in Roman Law in 1886; elected Fellow in 1887; and J.P. in 1906. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 1919 to 1929; and a Bencher of the Middle Temple from 1922.

Bond's pupils included Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, and Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia.[2]

Bond lived at Middlefield, a country house near Stapleford to the south of Cambridge that was built for him in 1908−09 by the architect Edwin Lutyens.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Dr. H. Bond. The Times (London, England), Wednesday, Jun 08, 1938; pg. 14; Issue 48015.
  2. ^ a b Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. i. Abbey – Challis, (1940) p100
  3. ^ "Middlefield and Garden Wall". Historic England. Retrieved 14 May 2022.
Academic offices
Preceded by Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1919 to 1929
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