Author talk:William Finlayson Trotter

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TROTTER, WILLIAM FINLAYSON. Adm. sizar at TRINITY, Oct. 7, 1892. [4th] s. of Robert [R.N.], of 35, London Street, Edinburgh. B. July 26, 1871, at Leith. School, Watson's, Edinburgh. Matric. Michs. 1892; Scholar; (Moral Sci. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class, 1894); B.A. (Moral Sci. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class) 1896; M.A. and LL.M. 1902; LL.D. 1917. Advocate of the Scottish Bar, 1898. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 26, 1903. Called to the Bar, 1903. K.C. for Scotland, 1919. Lecturer in Law at Sheffield University, 1906-8; Professor of Law at Sheffield University, 1908-36. Married, 1898, Agnes Eliza, dau. of John Davidson of Wigtownshire. Author of many legal text-books; translated and edited Pascal's Thoughts. Died Feb. 8, 1945, in Edinburgh. (Schoolmasters' Directories; Law Lists; C. J. Fordyce; Kelly, Handbook; Glasgow Herald, Feb. 9, 1945; Who Was Who.)