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.H. G. Hanbury, rev. H. G. Judge, "Stallybrass, William Teulon Swan (1883–1948)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, September 2004.
He was the son of the publisher William Swan Sonnenschein and the nephew of the classical scholar Edward Adolf Sonnenschein, and was colloquially known at Oxford as "Sonners" for his former surname;"Milestones, Nov. 8, 1948", Time, 8 November 1948. Archived from the original on 1 February 2011. in 1917, together with his father, he took the surname of his great-grandfather, the Reverend Edward Stallybrass."Stallybrass, William Teulon Swan (1883–1948)", The Encyclopaedia of Oxford, ed. Christopher and Edward Hibbert, London: Macmillan, 1988, , p. 440."Oxford's Stallybrass", Time, 13 October 1947.
As an undergraduate at Brasenose, he played cricket; he served as treasurer of the Oxford University Cricket Club from 1914 to 1946. He was a barrister when he was asked in 1912 to return to his college as a fellow, where he specialised in criminal law and became Principal of the college in 1936."Principals — list of past and present", Brasenose College, Oxford, retrieved 10 April 2021. He was elected Vice-Chancellor of the university in October 1947.
He died a year later in a railway accident when he stepped out of a moving train near Iver station in Buckinghamshire, the first death of an Oxford vice-chancellor while in office."Dr. William Stallybrass", The Law Times, 1948, p. 280. 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)
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External links Works by William Teulon Swan Sonnenschein at OCLC WorldCat.