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| Sender: |
Charles Mitchell |
| Date: |
Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:03:30 +0100 |
| Re: |
Sir Robert Megarry |
Dear Hector
You'll see that the Telegraph obituarist quotes
him as saying that:
"One of the examiners congratulated
me on my economy of effort," he recalled. "If I'd got one
mark less I'd have failed. As it was I came away with a Third."
I wonder about this, though: would he not have got a
Fourth if he'd got one mark less? I don't know how the degree classification
rules worked at Cambridge in the 30s.
Best wishes At 16:50 17/10/2006 +0100, Hector MacQueen
wrote:
The Times obit was rather good, but
disappointingly didn't mention either Coco v Clark or Ross
v Caunters which are surely among Megarry's more distinctive claims
to fame. Also, I have a memory of a story told to me long ago by the
late Alf Donaldson, former Parliamentary draftsman at Stormont and a
younger contemporary of Megarry in Northern Ireland, that Megarry got
a pass or fourth class degree. The Times rather glosses over
his student career, and I wonder if anyone can confirm the truth or
otherwise of the story.
Charles
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