Gaillard Thomas Lapsley (1871–1949) was an American constitutional historian and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1904–1949.[1]

A brass plaque dedicated to Lapsley's memory can be found in Trinity College Chapel.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1893.[2]

Selected publications edit

  • The county palatine of Durham: A study in constitutional history. Longmans Green, New York, 1900.
  • The America of today, being lectures delivered at the local lectures summer meeting of the University of Cambridge, 1918. University Press, Cambridge, 1919.
  • "The Parliamentary title of Henry IV", English Historical Review, XLIX (1934).[3]
  • Some recent advance in English constitutional history: (before 1485). University Press, Cambridge, 1936.
  • Crown, community, and Parliament in the later Middle Ages; studies in English constitutional history. Blackwell, Oxford, 1951. (Oxford Studies in Mediaeval History, Vol. 6.)

References edit

  1. ^ Cowling, Maurice (2003). Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 9780521545167. Retrieved 2015-10-03.
  2. ^ "Honor Conferred on Prof. Lapsley. | News | The Harvard Crimson". www.thecrimson.com.
  3. ^ Chrimes, S.B. (2013). English Constitutional Ideas in the Fifteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 106. ISBN 9781107683334. Retrieved 2015-10-03.