Geoffrey Cheshire

Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire FBA (27 June 1886 – 27 October 1978) was a British barrister and legal scholar.

He served in the First World War, 1914–19, with 2/6 Battalion Cheshire Regiment and the Royal Flying Corps:[3] he retired with the rank of captain.

He became a barrister (Lincoln's Inn) in 1922 and, in the same year took on the additional office of All Souls' Lecturer in Private International Law.

In 1963, a year after the death of his first wife, Geoffrey Cheshire married Dame Mary Lloyd (1902–1972), daughter of A.J.

Geoffrey Cheshire's obituary in The Times described him as "the first academic lawyer to tackle the great reforms in the law of property associated with the name of Lord Birkenhead", and his first book, Modern Law of Real Property, published initially in 1925, became the standard text on the subject.