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Crew member for the Kent School, Connecticut. Did not row at Henley.

Fellow of Jesus College.

Born in the village of Idle in Yorkshire where his father worked at a small manufacturing firm and his mother was a mill weaver.

Educated at Belle Vue Grammar School in Bradford and then Downing College, Cambridge where he studied History. He gained an upper first class degree, and was awarded a Squire Law scholarship. That together with some assistance from his local authority provided the financial support that enabled him to proceed to study Law. He gained first class honours in both parts of the Cambridge Law Tripos and in the postgraduate LLB degree, and was awarded the Whewell and Cassell scholarships. He later got his LL.B from the same institution and then won the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellowship to Harvard University.

After Harvard, he worked at an assistant lectureship at the London School of Economics. From 1939 on, he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and was awarded the Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law. The University of Leicester named a chair after him. In 1955 he succeeded Sir Hersch Lauterpacht as Whewell Professor of International Law, the post which he held until 1982.

He served in the Intelligence Corps during the Second World War.

He was knighted in 1982. He was a president of the Institut de droit international, received honorary doctorates from the universities of Hull, Leicester and the Saarland, as well as Oxford and Cambridge.

According to the 1967-68 Annual Report: "Next year, following the administrative re-organisation of the Amalgamated Clubs, the Literary Society will arrange Tuesday evening sessions and a Drama Society is to be created to organize plays"
They produced plays under the name Croke Theatricals until the academic year 1972/73 when they changed their name to World Upside Down. This was dropped during the year 1979/80 and they returned to being called the Drama Society

According to the 1967-68 Annual Report: "Next year, following the administrative re-organisation of the Amalgamated Clubs, the Literary Society will arrange Tuesday evening sessions and a Drama Society is to be created to organize plays"

Founded in 1929 - a Musical Society had been founded previously in 1879 but was only periodically active

Established for 40 years, operating in and around Cambridge.