Viscount Bryce, a distinguished historian and Liberal politician who for a period combined the Regius chair of civil law with holding office as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and who resigned the chair only in 1893, a year after joining William Ewart Gladstone's Cabinet. In 1955, the distinguished German academic lawyer David Daube (1909–1999), a native of Freiburg im Breisgau, became the first foreign-born Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford since the 17th century. He was later a professor-in-residence at the University of California, Berkeley. Daube was succeeded in 1971 by Tony Honoré (born 1921), a jurist known for his work on ownership, causation and Roman law, who remained in post until 1988. Although born in London, he was brought up in South Africa, fought in the Second World War and was severely wounded at the First Battle of El Alamein. His contributions to legal philosophy include sixteen books and more than a hundred articles. In 1988, Peter Birks was appointed, holding office until his death in 2004. He was a specialist on the law of Restitution. After a vacancy of more than a year, Boudewijn Sirks was appointed in December 2005 and took up the post in 2006, his previous career having been in teaching philosophy and law at the universities of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Frankfurt. In 2015, Sirks was succeeded by Wolfgang Ernst, whose research focuses on Roman law. List of Regius Professors of Civil Law –1557: John Story (for much of that time jointly with Robert Weston and William Aubrey) 1546–1553: Robert Weston (jointly with John Story) 1553–1559: William Aubrey (for some of that period jointly with John Story) 1559–1566: John Griffith 1566–1577: Robert Lougher 1577–1586: Griffith Lloyd 1587–1608: Alberico Gentili 1611–1620: John Budden 1620–1661: Richard Zouch 1661–1672: Sir Giles Sweit 1672–1712: Thomas Bouchier 1712–1736: James Bouchier 1736–1752: Henry Brooke 1753–1767: Herbert Jenner 1767–1789: Robert Vansittart 1789–1796: Thomas Francis Wenman 1796–1809: French Laurence 1809–1855: Joseph Phillimore (1775–1855) 1855–1870: Sir Travers Twiss 1870–1893: James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce 1893–1919: Henry Goudy, author of the article on "Roman Law" in vol. 23 of the 11th ed. of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) 1919–1948: Francis de Zulueta 1948–1954: Herbert Felix Jolowicz 1955–1970: David Daube 1971–1988: Tony Honoré 1989–2004: Peter Birks July 2004 – February 2006: vacant 2006–2014: Boudewijn Sirks From 1 October 2015: Wolfgang Ernst See also List of Professorships at the University of Oxford Regius Professor