David Yardley

Sir David Charles Miller Yardley (4 June 1929 – 3 June 2014) was a British legal scholar and public servant. Having taught at the University of Oxford (1953–1974), he was then Barber Professor of Law at the University of Birmingham (1974–1978), Head of the Department of Law, Politics and Economics at Oxford Polytechnic (1978–1980), and Rank Foundation Professor of Law at the University College at Buckingham (1980–1982). Following retirement from academia, he served as chairman of the Commission for Local Administration in England from 1982 to 1994, and a complaints commissioner at the Securities and Investments Board from 1994 to 2001.[1][2][3][4]

Honours

In 1989, Yardley was made a Freeman of the City of Oxford.[1] In the 1994 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Knight Bachelor "for services to Local Government".[5] On 31 March 1994, he received the accolade from Charles, Prince of Wales during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.[6]

Selected works
  • Yardley, D. C. M. (1960). Introduction to British Constitutional Law. Oxford: Butterworth.
  • Yardley, D. C. M. (1964). The Future of the Law. London: Cresset Press.
  • Yardley, D. C. M. (1966). Geldart's Elements of English law. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Yardley, D. C. M. (1995). Introduction to constitutional and administrative law (8th ed.). Oxford: Butterworths. ISBN 9780406041722.

References
  1. "Yardley, Sir David (Charles Miller)". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  2. "In Memory of Professor Sir David Yardley". brookesalumni.co.uk. Oxford Brookes University. February 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  3. "Professor Sir David Yardley Memorial Service - Friday 14th November". Faculty of Law. University of Oxford. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  4. "Former preservation trust chairman dies". Oxford Mail. 12 June 2014. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  5. "No. 53527". The London Gazette. 30 December 1993. pp. 1–2.
  6. "No. 53741". The London Gazette. 22 July 1994. p. 10497.
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