David Yale

For the Vicar General of Chester, see David Yale (chancellor).
Coat of arms of David Yale's grandfather, Col. James Corbet Yale of Plas-yn-Yale, their ancestral seat[1]

David Eryl Corbet Yale, FBA, Hon. QC (31 March 1928 – 26 June 2021) was a scholar in the history of English law. He became Queen's Counsel at the same time as Nelson Mandela, and became president of the Selden Society. He was also a reader in English legal history at Cambridge University from 1969 to 1993, and a life fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge from 1950 until his death.[2][3]

  1. ^ Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1905). Armorial families : A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, Edinburgh : T.C. & E.C. Jack, Boston Public Library, p. 2156
  2. ^ "Mr David Yale FBA". British Academy. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ^ "David Eryl Corbet Yale". Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 9 October 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2019.