William Stallybrass

William Teulon Swan Stallybrass (formerly William Teulon Swan Sonnenschein; 22 November 1883 – 28 October 1948) was a barrister, Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, from 1936, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from October 1947 until his death.

He was the son of the publisher William Swan Sonnenschein and the nephew of the classical scholar Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, in 1917, together with his father, he took the surname of his great-grandfather, the Reverend Edward Stallybrass.

As an undergraduate at Brasenose, he played cricket; he served as treasurer of the Oxford University Cricket Club from 1914 to 1946. He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the university in October 1947. He was almost blind at the time.

Books The Pocket Emerson, edited by W. T. S. Sonnenschein (1909) A Society of States; or, sovereignty, independence, and equality in a League of Nations (1918) The Buccaneers of America, translation of 1684–5 (with facsimiles of the original engravings), revised and edited by W. Stallybrass, et al. (1923) The Law of Torts, 8th edition (1934)