Sir Ronald Roxburgh | |
|---|---|
 Roxburgh in 1948 by Walter Stoneman | |
| Justice of the High Court | |
| In office 1946–1960 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 November 1889 |
| Died | 19 August 1981 (aged 91) |
| Resting place | Highgate Cemetery |
| Education | University of Cambridge |
Sir Ronald Francis Roxburgh (19 November 1889 – 19 August 1981) was a British barrister, High Court judge, and writer on international law and on the history of the Inns of Court.
Born at Eastbourne, Roxburgh was the only son of Francis Roxburgh (1850-1936) and Annie Gertrude Mortlock (1857-1948).
After graduating from Cambridge, Roxburgh was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1914, appointed King's Counsel in 1933, became a Justice of the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in 1946, knighted the same year, and retired in 1960. In his early years as a barrister he worked with the German jurist L. F. L. Oppenheim, a founder of the discipline of international law, who was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge.
In 1935, Roxburgh married firstly Jane Minney, a daughter of Archibald H. and Lady Frances Gordon-Duff, herself a daughter of Hugh Fortescue, 3rd Earl Fortescue. They had one daughter, Mary Frances, born in 1936, who in 1959 married Brian Donald Boyd. Roxburgh's first wife died in 1960, and in 1966 he married secondly Dorothea Hodge.
Roxburgh died on 19 August 1981 and is buried in a family vault on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.
