Author talk:Arthur Scratchley

Sources edit

Name: Arthur Scratchley
Birth - Death: 1824-
Source Citation:

  • Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature. British and American authors living and deceased from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Three volumes. By S. Austin Allibone. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1858-1871. (Alli)
  • Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)

Cambridge edit

Scratchley, Arthur.
Adm. pens. at PETERHOUSE, June 30, 1841. [4th s. of Dr – [James], of Paris.
B. 1821.] Matric. Michs. 1841.
Migrated to Queens', Jan. 21, 1842; B.A. (10th Wrangler) 1845; M.A. 1848.
Fellow of Queens', 1845-9. Sadleirian Lecturer, 1845-7. Adm. at the Inner Temple, Oct. 25, 1853.
Called to the Bar, Nov. 17, 1856.
Actuary and Secretary, Western Life Assurance Society, 1846-64; General Manager, 1864-6. Author, The Law of Life Assurance; The Law of Land Societies; etc.
Died Jan. 23, 1897, at Brondesbury.
Brother of Charles J. (1830).
(T. A. Walker, 475; Boase, . 463; Inns of Court; Foster, Men at the Bar; The Times, Jan. 30, 1897.)