William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (formerly William Teulon Swan Sonnenschein; 22 November 1883 – 28 October 1948) was a
barrister, Principal of
Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1936, and
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Oxford from October 1947 until his death.[1]
He was the son of the publisher
William Swan Sonnenschein and the nephew of the classical scholar
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein,[1] and was colloquially known at Oxford as "Sonners" for his former surname;[2] in 1917, together with his father, he took the surname of his great-grandfather, the Reverend
Edward Stallybrass.[3][4]
As an undergraduate at Brasenose, he played cricket; he served as treasurer of the
Oxford University Cricket Club from 1914 to 1946.[1] He was a
barrister when he was asked in 1912 to return to his college as a fellow, where he specialised in
criminal law[4] and became Master of the college in 1936.[5] He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the university in October 1947.[4]
He died a year later in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near
Iver station in
Buckinghamshire, the first death of an Oxford vice-chancellor while in office.[6] He was almost
blind at the time.[2]
Books
The Pocket Emerson, edited by W. T. S. Sonnenschein (1909)
A Society of States; or, sovereignty, independence, and equality in a League of Nations (1918)
The Buccaneers of America, translation of 1684–5 (with facsimiles of the original engravings), revised and edited by W. Stallybrass, et al. (1923)
William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (formerly William Teulon Swan Sonnenschein; 22 November 1883 – 28 October 1948) was a
barrister, Principal of
Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1936, and
Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Oxford from October 1947 until his death.[1]
He was the son of the publisher
William Swan Sonnenschein and the nephew of the classical scholar
Edward Adolf Sonnenschein,[1] and was colloquially known at Oxford as "Sonners" for his former surname;[2] in 1917, together with his father, he took the surname of his great-grandfather, the Reverend
Edward Stallybrass.[3][4]
As an undergraduate at Brasenose, he played cricket; he served as treasurer of the
Oxford University Cricket Club from 1914 to 1946.[1] He was a
barrister when he was asked in 1912 to return to his college as a fellow, where he specialised in
criminal law[4] and became Master of the college in 1936.[5] He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the university in October 1947.[4]
He died a year later in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near
Iver station in
Buckinghamshire, the first death of an Oxford vice-chancellor while in office.[6] He was almost
blind at the time.[2]
Books
The Pocket Emerson, edited by W. T. S. Sonnenschein (1909)
A Society of States; or, sovereignty, independence, and equality in a League of Nations (1918)
The Buccaneers of America, translation of 1684–5 (with facsimiles of the original engravings), revised and edited by W. Stallybrass, et al. (1923)