WHITLEY

STOKES (1830-1909)  , British lawyer and Celtic scholar, was a son of William Stokes (1804-1878), and a grand-son of Whitley Stokes (1763-1845), each of whom was regius professor of physic in the university of Dublin . In his day, William Stokes, who was the author of several books on medical subjects, was one of the foremost physicians in Europe . Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, young Stokes became an English barrister in 1855, and in 1862 he went to India, where he filled several official positions . In 1877 he was appointed legal member of the viceroy's council, and he drafted the codes of civil and criminal procedure and did much other valuable work of the same nature . In 1879 he was president of the commission on Indian law . He returned to England in 1882 . In 1887 he was made a C.S.I., and two years later a C.I.E.; he obtained honorary degrees from many universities, and was a fellow of the British Academy . He died in London on the 13th of April 19oo . Whitley Stokes is perhaps most famous as a Celtic scholar, and in this field he worked both in India and in England . He studied Irish, Breton and Cornish texts, and among his numerous works may be mentioned editions of Three Irish Glossaries (1862); Three Middle-Irish Homilies (1877); and Old Irish Glosses at Wiirzburg and Carlsruhe (1887) . He was one of the editors of the Isische Texte published at Leipzig (188o-'9oo); and he edited and translated Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore (1890) . With Professor A .

Bezzenberger he wrote Urkeltischer Sprachschatz '(1894) . His

principal legal work was The Anglo-Indian Codes (1887) .