Stroud Francis Charles Milsom QC, FBA, FRHistS (2 May 1923 – 24 February 2016) was an English legal historian, best known for his challenge to aspects of the works of F. W. Maitland.
The same year, he received a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Milsom was a fellow of New College, Oxford, from 1956 to 1964, when he completed for publication Novae Narrationes, the Selden Society's volume for 1963,[2] later cited in his book Historical Foundations of the Common Law.
[3][4] During those years, he also taught occasionally as a visiting professor at Yale Law School.
[5] Subsequently, Milsom was the society's President from 1985 to 1988, succeeding to Geoffrey Elton.