Edward Jenks was an English jurist and writer on law and legal history who lived from 20 February 1861 to 10 November 1939. Educated at King's College, Cambridge, he held academic posts at Jesus College Cambridge, the University of Melbourne, University College Liverpool, Victoria University of Manchester, the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics, and he founded the Society of Public Teachers of Law. He became a Fellow of the British Academy and edited the multi volume Digest of English Civil Law, published between 1905 and 1917. He is particularly remembered for his 1904 essay The Myth of Magna Carta, which challenged the conventional historical account of the charter's significance.
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Born on 20 February 1861 in Lambeth, London, to Robert Jenks, upholsterer, and his wife Frances Sarah, née Jones, he was educated at Dulwich College (1874-77) and King's College, Cambridge, where he was scholar (1886) and, in 1889-95, fellow.
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Edward Jenks, FBA (1861-1939) was an English jurist, and noted writer on law and its place in history. Born on 20 February 1861 in Lambeth, London, to Robert Jenks, upholsterer, and his wife Frances Sarah, née Jones, he was educated at Dulwich College (1874-77) and King's College, Cambridge, where he was scholar (1886) and, in 1889-95, fellow.
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Edward Jenks, FBA (1861-1939) was an English jurist, and noted writer on law and its place in history.
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He was the principal editor of A Digest of English Civil Law (1905-1917) which led to receipt of an honorary doctorate from Paris. After two further editions in his lifetime (1921 and 1938), the fourth edition (1947), edited in his place by P. H. Winfield, retained Jenks's Prolegomena, with its opening remark that a digest uses the indicative mood rather than the imperative mood of a code, and differs from an encyclopaedia in that it aims at economy of words.
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P569 (date of birth): 1861
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P569 (date of birth): 1861-02-20
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P570 (date of death): 1939
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P570 (date of death): 1939-11-10
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P19 (place of birth): Lambeth
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