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BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (1S2o1882)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 799 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BERNARD, MOUNTAGUE (1S2o1882) , English
international
  lawyer, the third son of Charles
Bernard
  of Jamaica, the descendant of a Huguenot family, was born at Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire, on the 28th of January 1820. He was educated at Sherborne school, and Trinity College,
Oxford
 . Graduating B.A. in 1842, he took his B.C.L., was elected Vinerian scholar and fellow, and having read in chambers with Roundell Palmer (afterwards Lord Selborne), was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1846. He was specially interested in legal history and in
church
  questions, and was one of the founders of the Guardian. In 1852 he was elected to the new professorship of
international
  law and diplomacy at
Oxford
 , attached to All Souls' College, of which he afterwards was made a fellow. But besides his duties at Oxford he undertook a good deal of non-collegiate
work
 ; he was a member of several royal commissions; in 1871 he went as one of the high commissioners to the United States, and signed the treaty of Washington, and in 1872 he assisted Sir Roundel Palmer before the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva. In 1874 he resigned his professorship at Oxford, but as member of the university of Oxford commission of 1876 he was mainly responsible for bringing about the compromise ultimately adopted between the university and the colleges.
Bernard
 's reputation as an international lawyer was widespread, and he was an
original
  member of the Institut de
Droit
  International (1873). IIis published works include An Historical Account of the Neutrality of
Great
  Britain during the American Civil War (London, 1870), and many lectures on international law and diplomacy.


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