Roland Burrows
# Roland Burrows

Sir Roland Burrows KC (12 February 1882 – 13 June 1952) was a British judge and legal writer.

Burrows was born in Maidstone, Kent, and educated at St John's College, Southend; the University of London, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in January 1904, was appointed King's Counsel in 1932, and became a bencher of the Inner Temple in 1940. He was Recorder of Chichester from 1926 to 1928, and again in 1951. He was Recorder of Cambridge from 1928 onward.

He was the managing editor of the second edition of Halsbury's Laws of England and the author of Interpretation of Documents. He was knighted in the 1946 New Year Honours.

