18 Facts About Arthur Underhill

Sir Arthur Underhill was a legal scholar and barrister of the nineteenth century.

Arthur Underhill was the author of many works on legal torts and property law and is noted for being the father of the famed spiritualist and peace activist, Evelyn Underhill.

The Underhill family tree, which Arthur Underhill took pains to trace, goes back to a William Underhill in the fifteenth century.

In Tudor times there was one Arthur Underhill who was known as the hot-gospeller.

Later in the eighteenth century a certain John Arthur Underhill was a stout Nonconformist divine, but the family returned to the Established Church.

Arthur Underhill was educated at one of the Woodard Schools, and later studied law at Trinity College Dublin where he graduated with an LLD.

Arthur Underhill initially trained in his father's office as a solicitor but decided to leave that side of the legal profession and practise instead as a barrister.

Shortly after his daughter Evelyn's birth in 1875, Arthur Underhill left Wolverhampton for London.

Evelyn's biographers have suggested that Arthur Underhill had a 'distant and cool' relationship with his daughter in her early life.

Margaret Cropper suggested that 'Sir Arthur Underhill really discovered his daughter in her late teens, and became aware then of her good brain and penetrating ability.

Arthur Underhill's daughter shared her father's interest in the law.

Unlike his famous daughter Arthur Underhill was not religiously observant.

Arthur Underhill provided a number of educational privileges to Evelyn, including travelling with his daughter to mainland Europe in 1890.

Arthur Underhill later recalled that the profoundly moving European art that she encountered in her travels provided rich material for her works of fiction.

Arthur Underhill was considered an expert on torts and private trusts.

Arthur Underhill produced an autobiography, Change and Decay: The Recollections and Reflections of an Octogenarian Bencher.

Arthur Underhill authored Our Silver Streak, or the Yachtsman's Guide to the English Channel: Simple Navigation for Home Waters; and Courses and Distances round the British Isles.

Arthur Underhill was knighted in 1922 as part of the 1922 Dissolution Honours.