Propulsion Prospects

1969 ◽  
Vol 73 (707) ◽  
pp. 923-934 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Weir
Keyword(s):  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
Junior Officer ◽  
Project Officer

I welcome this opportunity of following in the footsteps of the eminent and erudite speakers who have given the Barnwell Memorial Lecture on previous occasions. A number of my predecessors in this role were closely associated with Captain Barnwell. Indeed, some were included among his personal friends. I cannot make any such claim, but I did have the privilege of working in association with him for brief periods during 1936 and 1937. At that time I was, in modern parlance, the Project Officer at the Royal Aircraft Establishment on the successful altitude record flights made by Sqn. Ldr. Swain in 1936 and Fit. Lt. Adam in 1937, in Barnwell's Bristol 138A mono-plane. We met on relatively few occasions but I well remember the kindly and tolerant attitude of this eminent aeronautical pioneer towards a very junior officer.

Thinking About Scots Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Rodger
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Memorial Lecture ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

This article is the revised text of the first W A Wilson Memorial Lecture, given in the Playfair Library, Old College, in the University of Edinburgh, on 17 May 1995. It considers various visions of Scots law as a whole, arguing that it is now a system based as much upon case law and precedent as upon principle, and that its departure from the Civilian tradition in the nineteenth century was part of a general European trend. An additional factor shaping the attitudes of Scots lawyers from the later nineteenth century on was a tendency to see themselves as part of a larger Englishspeaking family of lawyers within the British Empire and the United States of America.

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