BERNARD, MONTAGUE (1820-1882), English inter national lawyer, the descendant of a Huguenot family, was born at Tibberton Court, Gloucestershire, and educated at Sherborne school and Trinity college, Oxford, being called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1846. He was interested in legal history and in Church questions, and was one of the founders of the Guardian. In 1852 he was elected to the new professorship of international law and diplomacy at Oxford, where he undertook a good deal of non-collegiate work. He was a member of several royal com missions; in 1871 he went as one of the high commissioners to the United States, and signed the treaty of Washington, and in 1872 he assisted Sir Roundell Palmer before the tribunal of arbitration at Geneva. In 1874 he resigned his professorship, but as member of the University of Oxford commission of 1876 he was mainly responsible for bringing about the compromise be tween the university and the colleges. Bernard's reputation as an international lawyer was widespread, and he was an original member of the Institut de Droit International (1873). His pub lished works include An Historical Account of the Neutrality of Great Britain during the American Civil War (187o), and lectures on international law and diplomacy.