he published Introduction to Justinian's Digest and Commentary, for which he was awarded the honorary degree of LL.D by the University of Edinburgh. This was followed in 1902 by Roman Private Law in the Time of Cicero and the Antonines. Industry With the ending of his work as a schools commissioner in 1874, Roby became a partner in his father in law's firm of Ermen and Engels, sewing cotton manufacturers of Patricroft near Manchester. Soon afterwards the firm changed its name to Ermen and Roby. Parliament Roby was an active member of the Liberal Party, serving variously as chairmen of the Manchester Liberal Executive, the Executive for the North-West Manchester Liberal Association and of the Manchester Liberal Union, and as president of the Eccles Liberal Association. In 1890, the incumbent M.P. for the Eccles division of Lancashire died, and Roby was chosen to contest the seat at the ensuing by-election. He won the seat from the Conservatives, holding it at the subsequent general election of 1892. He was a Deputy Chairman of Committees of the House of Commons. Retirement In 1894, Roby retired from business and in the following year from parliament. He spent the last twenty years of his life in at his residence Lancrigg, Grasmere in the Lake District. He died at Lancrigg in 1915, aged 84. Notes References External links 1830 births 1915 deaths English classical scholars Liberal Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies People from Tamworth, Staffordshire People educated at Bridgnorth Endowed School UK MPs 1886–1892 UK MPs 1892–1895 Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge English male writers People from Grasmere (village)