John Shand hoped to read Historyas an undergraduate, but was persuaded at the last minute to read Law. Thereafter he practiced at the Birmingham Bar, spent three years at his College as a Law Fellow, sat as a diocesan Chancellor in Lichfield and Southwell, eventually John landed up as Resident Circuit Judge at Stafford.
On retirement thirteen years ago John studied for an MA at the Centre for Reformation and Early Modern Studies at Birmingham University under the supervision of Richard Cust.
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