Frederick Stroud (1835 - 1912),[1] barrister and Recorder of Tewkesbury, son of John Stroud of Cheltenham, was born at Cheltenham on 17 October 1835. He was educated at Cheltenham. He was admitted a solicitor in 1863, taking honours at the examination. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in Michaelmas 1883. In 1862, he wrote his County Court Practice in Bankruptcy.[2][3] From 1862 to 1863, he wrote his Practical Law Affecting Bills of Sale.[4] He is the author of the "Judicial Dictionary", the first edition of which was published in 1890, the second being published in three volumes, an exhaustive and eminently practical dictionary of the English of affairs by the English Judges and Parliament from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century.[2] After Stroud's death, the Law Journal said that the dictionary would long preserve his memory.[5] It was at Stroud's suggestion that the policy of municipalities for the government of London was adopted.[2] Stroud was a member of the British Numismatic Society.[6][7]
- ^ "Stroud, Frederick", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2007; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 19 Jan 2014
- ^ a b c Charles Welch and W T Pike. "Frederick Stroud" in London at the Opening of the Twentieth Century. Issue 15 of Pike's New Century Series. 1905. Page 307. Google Books.
- ^ For reviews of this book, see "The Law Library" (1862) 37 The Law Times 180 (1 February); "Reviews" (1862) The Jurist, New Series, Volume 8, Part 2, page 217 at 219; "Reviews" (1862) 6 Solicitors Journal and Reporter 216 (25 January)
- ^ "Practical Law Affecting Bills of Sale" (1862 to 1863) 7 Solicitors Journal and Reporter 80, 101, 122, 141, 161, 182, 199, 219, 238, 257 and 280 (This work was published as a serial in the periodical from 6 December 1862 to 14 February 1863).
- ^ (1913) 48 The Law Journal 4
- ^ "78. Philip and Mary, Half-crown" (1972) 40 British Numismatic Journal 166 [1]
- ^ L A Lawrence (1907) 4 British Numismatic Journal 316 [2]: "Mr. Stroud has a foreign coin about the size of a dollar, but cut down, on which the obverse of No. 67 has been impressed. This is probably intended for a half crown."