Robert Yewdall Jennings

[1] Jennings was born in Yorkshire, England, in the village of Idle where his father worked at a small manufacturing firm and his mother was a mill weaver.

Again, Jennings excelled, gaining first class honours in both parts of the Cambridge Law Tripos and in the postgraduate LLB degree, and being awarded the Whewell and Cassell scholarships.

From 1939 on, he was a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, and was awarded the Hudson Medal of the American Society of International Law.

[2] He was a president of the Institut de droit international, received honorary doctorates from the universities of Hull, Leicester and the Saarland, as well as Oxford and Cambridge.

[4] Sir Robert Yewdall Jennings died of natural causes on 4th August 2004 (aged 90) and was buried in Cambridgeshire, England.