[2] He attended Uppingham School and went up to Brasenose College, Oxford and earned a hockey blue in 1926.

[1] He practised on the Midlands Circuit for a short period of time, but returned to Oxford.

[2] His academic interest was initially in land law and equity, but following the Second World War Waldock joined a branch of the Admiralty, of which he headed and achieved the grade of principal assistant secretary in 1944.

[2] Wadlock was Chichele Professor of Public International Law at All Souls College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1979.

"[4] Waldock married Ethel Beatrice Williams in 1934, with whom he had one son, Humphrey Edward, and one daughter, Jill.