Biography of Cecil Herbert Stuart FIFOOT
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Biography of Cecil Herbert Stuart FIFOOT
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Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot was born in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, in 1899, youngest of the five sons of Sydney and Maria Fifoot. In 1901 the family were living at Ingledene, Victoria Road, Penarth, Glamorganshire. His whereabouts at census time in 1911 is not known, but he was not at the family home which then was in Swanbridge. During the Great War of 1914-18 he served with the Royal Field Artillery.
Cecil gained a Master of Arts degree at Hertford College, Oxford of which he became a Fellow. He then became a Barrister-at-Law of the Middle Temple. The telephone directory for Cardiff in 1924 shows him as a Barrister-at-Law with an office at 59 Queen Street in Cardiff. His 'pnone number was Cardiff 173.
He married Norwegian Hjordis Baars Eriksen and they had one son, Erik Richard Sidney, born on 14 June 1925 at Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
Cecil became a prolific author of books on the subject of Contract Law. His writing covered a period between about 1926 to 1971.
Cecil was reader of Common English Law at All Souls College in Oxford. By 1937, he had become tutor of law at Hertford College and he and Hjordis were living at 3 Davenant Road in the Summertown area of Oxford. Around 1940, they moved to Chaucer's House which had been the home of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer in Woodstock. Some ten years later, they were living at 9 Hernes Road in Oxfrod.
About 1959, the couple moved to 6 Prideaux Road in Eastbourne, Sussex. They were there for about fifteen years before moving to 29 Carew Road in Eastbourne. A little before 1970 they relocated to Scotland at 203 Braid Road, Edinburgh 10, close to where son Richard was living. This was their address when Cecil passed away in 1975. Hjordis survived to the age of 92 and, having moved back to Oxfordshire with Richard and lived close by, she passed away there in 1994.
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