Thayer, Ezra Ripley, 1866-1915

Thayer graduated from Harvard in 1888, taught law and was Dean of the Harvard Law School.

Attorney, teacher, administrator. LL.B. Harvard Law School 1891, Dane Prof. and Dean 1910-1915. Secretary to Justice Horace Gray, U.S. Supreme Court 1892-1893. Practiced law in Boston 1893-1910. Author: References to Cases and Statutes to Accompany Lectures on Massachusetts Practice (1903-1904). Compiler: Legal Essays by James Bradley Thayer (1908). Address: "Judicial Administration" (1915).

Ezra Ripley Thayer (1866-1915) was an attorney, teacher, and administrator. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1888 and an LL.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1891. He was a partner in Boston with the firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer & Thayer, and was the Dane Professor at the Harvard Law School and Dean from 1910-1915. In 1915, at age 49, Thayer committed suicide while suffering from acute depression.

Leonard Merrick (1864-1939) was a British dramatist, actor, and novelist. He was well regarded by other writers of his era with J. M. Barrie calling Merrick the "novelist's novelist." In 1918 fifteen writers collaborated with publisher E. P. Dutton to issue a fifteen volume The works of Leonard Merrick.

Ezra Ripley Thayer (1866-1915) was an attorney, teacher, and administrator. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1888 and an LL.B. from the Harvard Law School in 1891. He was a partner in Boston with the firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer & Thayer, and was the Dane Professor at the Harvard Law School and Dean from 1910-1915. In 1915, at age 49, Thayer committed suicide while suffering from acute depression.

Leonard Merrick (1864-1939) was a British dramatist, actor, and novelist. He was well regarded by other writers of his era with J. M. Barrie calling Merrick the "novelist's novelist." In 1918 fifteen writers collaborated with publisher E. P. Dutton to issue a fifteen volume The works of Leonard Merrick.

Thayer, Ezra Ripley, attorney, law professor and law dean.

b. February 21, 1866, Milton, Massachusetts.

p. James Bradley and Sophia Bradford (Ripley) T.

A.B. Harvard College, 1888.

LL.B. Harvard Law School, 1891.

m. Ethel Randolf Clark, June 23, 1898 (three children).

Secretary to Justice Horace Gray, U.S. Supreme Court, 1892.

Practiced law in Boston with the firm of Brandeis, Dunbar, and Nutter, 1893-1900.

Practiced law in Boston with the firm of Storey, Thorndike, Palmer and Thayer, 1900-1910.

Dane Professor of Law and Dean of the Harvard Law School, 1910-1915.

d. September 14, 1915.

Compiler: Legal Essays, by James Bradley Thayer, 1908.