Mountague Bernard

He was the third son of Charles Bernard of Jamaica, the descendant of a Huguenot family, and was born at Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire.

[2] Graduating BA in 1842, he took his BCL, was elected Vinerian scholar and fellow, and having read in chambers with Roundell Palmer (afterwards Lord Selborne), was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1846.

[1] In 1852 he was elected the newly established post of Chichele Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at Oxford, attached to All Souls' College, of which he afterwards was made a fellow.

But besides his duties at Oxford he undertook a good deal of non-collegiate work; he was a member of several royal commissions; in 1871 he went as one of the high commissioners to the United States, and signed the treaty of Washington, and in 1872 he assisted Sir Roundell Palmer before the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva.

[1] His published works include A Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain during the American Civil War (London, 1870),[3] and many lectures on international law and diplomacy.