Percy Henry Winfield Explained

Sir Percy Henry Winfield (16 September 1878^[1]  – 7 July 1953) was Rouse Ball Professor of English Law between 1928 and 1943.^[2] He was born at Stoke Ferry in Norfolk.^[3] He died at his home at 13 Cranmer Road in Cambridge.^{[2] [4]} He was married to Lady Helena Winfield, née Scruby (1887 - 1954). He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

Works

He was the author of

• The History of Conspiracy and Abuse of Legal Procedure. 1921.
• The Present Law of Abuse of Legal Procedure. 1921.
• The Chief Sources of English Legal History. 1925.
• The Principles of International Law. By T J Lawrence. 7th Ed: 1923. Reprinted 1930, 1931.
• A Handbook of Public International Law. By T J Lawrence. 10th Ed: 1925. Reprinted 1927, 1930.
• The Province of the Law of Tort. 1931. (Tagore Lectures).
• A Text-Book of the Law of Tort. 1937. 2nd Ed: 1943. 3rd Ed: 1946. 4th Ed: 1948. 5th Ed: 1950.^[5] [Sometimes cited as "A Text-Book on the Law of Tort."] This book was subsequently edited by others and published under the title Winfield and Jolowicz on Tort.
• Cases on the Law of Tort. 1938. 2nd Ed: 1941.^[6] 3rd Ed: 1945. 4th Ed: 1948.
• Restatement of the Law of Torts, Volume III. Contemporary Law Pamphlets, Series 1, Number 23. 1939.
• Restatement of the Law of Torts, Volume IV. Contemporary Law Pamphlets, Series 1, Number 31. 1941.
• The Foundations & the Future of International Law. 1941.^{[7] [8]} Sometimes cited as "The Foundations and the Future of International Law". This book is number 8 in the Current Problems series.^[9]
• The Principles of Contract. 11th Ed: 1942. Pollock's Principles of Contract.  12th Ed: 1946. 13th Ed: 1950.^{[10] [11]}
• Jenks' English Civil Law. 4th Ed: 1947. Some reviewers call Winfield the editor in chief.
• The Law of Quasi-Contracts. 1952.^{[12] [13]} This monograph^[14] has been described as "excellent".^[15]
• Select Legal Essays. 1952.^[16]

He was author, with Sir John William Salmond, of Principles of the Law of Contracts (1927). He was editor, with Arnold Duncan McNair, of Cambridge Legal Essays (1926). He contributed the preface to Penal Reform In England (1941. 2nd Ed: 1946.) by Radzinowicz and Turner.

Sources

• Donal Nolan. "Professor Sir Percy Winfield (1878-1953)". James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan (eds). Scholars of Tort Law. Hart Publishing. 2019. Chapter 6. Pages 165 to 201.
• S J. Bailey. 36976. Winfield, Sir Percy Henry (1878-1953).
• Jones, Gareth H. "Winfield, Sir Percy Henry". In A. W. B. Simpson. Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law. Butterworths. 1984. pp. 545 – 546.
• The Times. 16 July 1953.
• Connecticut Bar Journal. Volume 27. Connecticut Bar Association. 1953. Page 391.
• "Sir Percy Winfield" in "Obituary" (1953) 216 The Law Times 386 (24 July 1953)
• "The Late Professor Winfield" (1953) 97 The Solicitors' Journal 496 (18 July 1953)

Notes and References

1. [Stanley John Bailey]
2. "Obituary" (1953) 103 The Law Journal 466 (17 July 1953)
3. Stanley John Bailey. Percy Henry Winfield, 1878-1953. Reprint. Oxford University Press. 1955. Page 329.
4. Winfield, Sir Percy Henry. 36976.
5. For reviews of the fifth edition, see "Legal Literature" (1952) 102 The Law Journal 12 (4 January 1952); and "Reviews" (1951) 95 The Solicitors' Journal 251 (21 April 1951).
6. For a review of the second edition, see "Review" in "Law Library" (1941) 192 The Law Times 293 (13 December 1941)
7. For a scan of this book, see Google Books
8. For reviews of this book, see, amongst others, "International Law" (1942) 8 New Commonwealth Quarterly 35; "Books and Publications" (1943) 9 The Irish Jurist 41 https://books.google.com/books?id=ASoOAQAAMAAJ; "Books" (1942) 2 New Europe and World Reconstruction 114 (March 1942); "The Law of Nations" in "Books of the Day" (1941) 167 The Spectator 429 (31 October 1941); Rudolf Sobernheim, "Current Books" (1942) 2 Lawyers Guild Review 48; The Contemporary Review, vols 160-161, Literary Supplement, p 319; "The Check List" (1942) 54 The American Mercury 761; and "The World of Books" (1942) 43 The Indian Review 89. For further commentary on this book, see (1948) 2 The International Law Quarterly 32 https://books.google.com/books?id=pWdLAQAAIAAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=mm2tAAAAMAAJ; George Bernard de Huszar, An Outline of International Relations, (College Outline Series, No 76) 1951, p 270; and Neuland, Traditional Doctrine on Intervention in the Law of Nations, 1971, p 242.
9. https://books.google.com/books?id=jIM8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PP6 "Current Problems"
10. For a review of the thirteenth edition, see "Reviews" (1951) 95 The Solicitors Journal' 46 (20 January 1951)
11. For a review of Pollock's Principles of Contract by Winfield, see "Reviews", The Solicitor, October 1950, p 238.
12. For a scan of this book, see Google Books.
13. For reviews of this book, see Glanville Williams (1953) 16 Modern Law Review 403 (July 1953) JSTOR; and (1953) British Book News 167. For further commentary on this book, see [1967-1968] 19 Hastings Law Journal 1092.
14. Auckland City v Henderson District Court [1998] 1 NZLR 255
15. Caffrey. Contract Law, Society and You. New South Wales University Press. 1977. p 267. (1973) 73 Colombia Law Review 1210.
16. For reviews of this book, see "Book Reviews" [1953] 39 Cornell Law Quarterly 185; "Reviews" (1953) 215 The Law Times 160 (27 March 1953); "Reviews" (1953) 97 The Solicitors' Journal 145 (28 February 1953); "Reviews" (1953) 87 Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 143 (16 May 1953); "New Books" in "Reviews" (1953) 72 Law Notes 75 (March 1953); "Reviews", The Solicitor, May 1953, p 130; Gerhard Erdsiek, "Literatur" (1957) 22 Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 568 JSTOR; T E L, "Book Reviews" (1953) 11 Cambridge Law Journal 505 (No 3, November 1953) Cambridge JSTOR; Gilbert D Kennedy (1954) 10 University of Toronto Law Journal 313 (No 2) JSTOR; Glanville Williams (1953) 16 Modern Law Review 403 (July 1953) JSTOR; (1953) British Book News 167; and (1953) 103 The Law Journal 835.