Eldon Law Scholarship
The Eldon Law Scholarship is a scholarship awarded to students from the University of Oxford who wish to study for the English Bar. Applicants must either have obtained a first class honours degree in the Final Honours School, or obtained a distinction on the BCL or MJur. It is a two-year scholarship presently funded at £9,000 a year. History The scholarship dates from 12 May 1830, and was funded in response to an application from subscribers. Although the scholarship is named after Lord Eldon LC, it is not funded from his will – Lord Eldon did not in fact die until eight years after the scholarship was founded. The first trustees included the Duke of Richmond, Earl of Mansfield, Earl of Romney and Lord Arden. Until 1963 it was a requirement that an applicant be a member of the Church of England. In 1963 that was downgraded to a preference, and in 1983 the requirement was dropped entirely. Past winners Past winners include: Herman Merivale (1831), civil servant and historian Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne (1834), Lord Chancellor Arthur Kensington (1837), Fellow of Trinity Thomas Henry Haddan (1840), founder of The Guardian Edward Karslake (1843), barrister and politician Ralph