Author talk:William Finlayson Trotter

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Name: William Finlayson Trotter
Birth - Death: 1871-1945
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• Who Was Who among English and European Authors, 1931-1949. Based on entries which first appeared in The Author's and Writer's Who's Who and Reference Guide, originally compiled by Edward Martell and L.G. Pine, and in Who's Who among Living Authors of Older Nations, originally compiled by Alberta Lawrence. Three volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1978. (WhE&EA)
• Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Based on entries that first appeared in Literary Yearbook (1906-1913), Literary Yearbook and Author's Who's Who (1914-1917), Literary Yearbook (1920-1922), and Who's Who in Literature (1924-1934). Two volumes. Detroit: Gale Research, 1979. (WhLit)

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TROTTER, WILLIAM FINLAYSON.
Adm. sizar at TRINITY, Oct. 7, 1892. [4th] s. of Robert [R.N.], of 35, London Street, Edinburgh.
B. July 26, 1871, at Leith.
School, Watson's, Edinburgh.
Matric. Michs. 1892; Scholar; (Moral Sci. Trip., Pt I, 1st Class, 1894); B.A. (Moral Sci. Trip., Pt II, 1st Class) 1896; M.A. and LL.M. 1902; LL.D. 1917.
Advocate of the Scottish Bar, 1898.
Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 26, 1903.
Called to the Bar, 1903.
K.C. for Scotland, 1919.
Lecturer in Law at Sheffield University, 1906-8; Professor of Law at Sheffield University, 1908-36.
Married, 1898, Agnes Eliza, dau. of John Davidson of Wigtownshire. Author of many legal text-books; translated and edited Pascal's Thoughts. Died Feb. 8, 1945, in Edinburgh.
(Schoolmasters' Directories; Law Lists; C. J. Fordyce; Kelly, Handbook; Glasgow Herald, Feb. 9, 1945; Who Was Who.)