Robert Weston [SEP] position held
Robert Weston
Robert Weston (c.1515 – 20 May 1573) was an English civil lawyer, who was Dean of the Arches and Lord Chancellor of Ireland in the time of Queen Elizabeth.
Life.
Robert Weston was the seventh son of John Weston (born c.1470, died c.1550), a tradesman of Lichfield, Staffordshire. The Weston family of Gloucestershire, who produced another senior Irish judge William Weston were probably his cousins. He entered All Souls, Oxford and was elected Fellow in 1536. He studied Civil Law
Aubrey went to Oxford University, becoming a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1547. He obtained a BCL degree in 1549 and was appointed Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford in 1550. In 1553 he succeeded Robert Weston as Regius Professor of Civil Law. He held the position until 1559, when he was succeeded by John Griffith. He served as judge-marshal of the army led by William Herbert, the Earl of Pembroke in the St. Quentin campaign of 1557.
In 1571 he was named in the