Geare, Edward Arundel

Title

Professor

First name(s)

Edward Arundel

Surname

Geare

Position(s) held at King's College London

• Professor of Law (1892-96)

Education & professional details

School, college and/or university attended

• St John's College, Cambridge (1861-1865)
• Inner Temple (1867-1869)

Position(s) held (non King's College London)

• On the Oxford Circuit (1885-92)
• Draftsman and Conveyancer

Publications

• The Investment of Trust Funds: Primary Sources (1883)
• The Investment of Trust Funds
• Incorporating the Trustee Act (1885)
• Company Law
• An Abridgement of the Law Contained in the Statutes and Decisions (1893)
• Poems (1871).

Personal details

Date of birth

3 October 1844

Place of birth

Stanford-in-the-Vale, Berkshire

Date of death

18 November 1896

Place of death

London

Obituary

The Times, 21 November 1896

Family details

• Son of the Rev. Edward Geare
• husband of Agnes Maria Wilding (1888)
• had issue

Notes

Edward Arundel Geare died as a result of being scalded in his bath. He was a well known poet before his appointment to KCL where he took James Gault's place, assisted by a brother, Reginald Geare, assistant master at KCL Junior School, who gave evening classes (1892-6) on Constitutional Law.