The Vinerian Professorship of English Law, formerly Vinerian Professorship of Common Law, was established by Charles Viner who by his will, dated 29 December 1755, left about £12,000 to the Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford, to establish a Professorship of the Common Law in that University, as well as a number of Vinerian scholarships and readerships. December 29 is the 363rd day of the year (364th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 2 days remaining. ... 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... This article concerns the common-law legal system, as contrasted with the civil law legal system; for other meanings of the term, within the field of law, see common law (disambiguation). ...

The holders of the Chair since its foundation are the following:

1. 1758 - 1766 William Blackstone (1723-1780)
2. 1766 - 1777 Sir Robert Chambers (1737-1803)
3. 1777 - 1793 Richard Wooddeson (1745-1822)
4. 1793 - 1824 James Blackstone (c1765-1831) (son of William Blackstone above)
5. 1824 - 1843 Philip Williams (1780-1843)
6. 1844 - 1880 John Robert Kenyon (1807-80)
7. 1882 - 1909 Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922)
8. 1909 - 1922 William Martin Geldart (1870-1922)
9. 1922 - 1944 William Searle Holdsworth (1871-1944)
10. 1944 - 1949 Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire (1886-1978)
11. 1949 - 1964 Harold Greville Hanbury (1898-1993)
12. 1964 - 1979 Rupert (A.R.N.) Cross (1912-80)
13. 1979 - 1997 Guenter Treitel
14. 1997 - Andrew Ashworth (b. 1947)

William Blackstone as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England. ... Albert Venn Dicey (February 4, 1835 – April 7, 1922) was a British jurist and constitutional theorist who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (1885). ... Professor Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire, DCL, LLD, FBA (27 June 1886–27 October 1978) was an English barrister, scholar and influential writer on law. ... Sir Rupert Cross (Alfred Rupert Neale Cross; born 15 June 1912 in Chelsea, London; died 12 September 1980, Oxford) was a prominent British jurisprude. ... Professor Guenter Treitel, DCL, FBA, QC, retired as Vinerian Professor of English Law in 1997, and has been awarded a knighthood for services to law. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

Source

• Hanbury, Harold Grenville, 1958. "The Vinerian Chair and Legal Education", Oxford: OUP.
• Oxford University calendars passim