Philip Arthur Ashworth

[1] Philip Arthur Ashworth was educated at Sherborne School, subsequently graduating with a BA from New College, Oxford in Classics and Law in 1875.

He practised for a while in London and was briefly an advocate of the Courts of Cyprus; but he then concentrated on research and writing about international jurisprudence and English constitutional law and administration.

[4] Ashworth was a prolific author, editor and translator of works on legal, constitutional, historic and military topics, with a reputation for writing "with scrupulous care and accurate scholarship",[5] whether in English or in German.

[6] On 15 April 1879 Dr Ashworth married Emma Charlotte Marie Leontina Von Estorff, Baroness von Estorff (1853–1935)[7] (née Sonntag), whose younger sister, Elizabeth, was a musician and composer who married the academic historian and classicist Sir James Wycliffe Headlam-Morley.

[8] Philip and Emma Ashworth lived in Victoria Street, Westminster and their country house in Berkshire, until retiring in 1902 to Kent.