Stephen Sir James Fitzjames

Stephen, SIR JAMES FITZJAMES (1829-94), English jurist, graduated at Cambridge and was called to the Bar in 1854. In 1868 he became a Q.C., and from 1869 to 1872 was a legal member of the council of the Indian Government. In 1875 he was made Professor of Common Law in the Inns of Court, and resigned it in 1879 on being appointed Judge of the High Court. He was a very great lawyer, and his works on law are amongst the most valuable ever published. His most notable work on The Common Law of England appeared in 1863, and the following should also be mentioned.: Essays by a Barrister (1862), Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity (1873), Digest of the Law of Evidence (1876), Digest of the Criminal Law (1877), and History of the Criminal Law of England (1883).