Mr David Eryl Corbet Yale

Lecturer and Reader in English Legal History, Christ’s College

(1928 -2021)

• Born 31st March 1928 - Southsea (nr Portsmouth)
  • Father: Lt- Col J C L Yale
  • Mother: Beatrice Yale (nee Breese)
• 1942-46: Malvern College
• 1947-49: Queens’ College, Cambridge, BA
• 1950-51: Christ’s College, Cambridge, Research Fellowship, LLB
• 1951: Bar, Inner Temple
• 1952-69: Christ’s College, Ass Lecturer/Lecturer in Law
• 1955: Earliest publication - CLJ, Tort - maintenance
• 1957: Lord Nottingham's Chancery Cases. Vol.1, Selden Soc, vol 73, 141+ 446pp.
• 1959: Married Elizabeth Ann (nee Brett), from Belfast
• 1961: Lord Nottingham's Chancery Cases, Vol. 2, Selden Soc, vol 79, 805 pp
• 1962: Sabbatical, Yale
• 1965: Lord Nottingham’s "Manual of Chancery" and "Prolegomena of Chancery and Equity" CUP, 356pp.
• 1969-93: Reader in English Legal History
• 1970-93: Editor of Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
• 1974-81: Editor Cambridge Law Journal
• 1976: Sir Matthew Hale’s The Prerogatives of the King, Selden Society vol 92, 76 + 353 pp.
• 1976-79: Faculty Chairman
• 1976-80: Literary Director Selden Soc (with Toby Milsom)
• 1980-1990: Literary Director Selden Soc (with John Baker)
• 1980: Fellow British Academy
• 1992: Retired
• 1993: Prichard M J & Yale, D E C (Eds). Hale and Fleetwood on Admiralty Jurisdiction, Selden Society, vol. 108, 420pp.
• 1994-97: President of the Selden Society
• 1999: The David Yale Prize of the Selden Society established in his honour
• 2000: Hon QC
• 2009: Bencher