Glanvill, Ranulf de, Chief-Justiciary of England in the reign of Henry II., born at Stratford, in Suffolk; is the author of the earliest treatise on the laws of England, a work in 14 books; was deposed by Richard I., and, joining the Crusaders, fell before Acre; (d. 1190).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Glanvill, Joseph * Glasgow