Robert Francis Vere Heuston, QC (Hon.), FBA, sometimes given as R. F. V. Heuston, was an Irish legal scholar and legal historian. He is best known for his Lives of the Lord Chancellors.
Works
Heuston published works on constitutional law (Essays in Constitutional Law, 1961) and torts (Salmond and Heuston on the Law of Torts). However, he is best known for his Lives of the Lord Chancellors, 1885-40 and Lives of the Lord Chancellors: 1940-1970, containing biographies of Lord Chancellors from Lord Halsbury to Lord Gardiner. == Honours ==
Honours
Heuston was elected an honorary fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1982, honorary bencher of King's Inns in 1983, honorary bencher of Gray's Inn in 1988, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1993. He was appointed an honorary Queen's Counsel in 1995. == References ==