L. Gordon Rylands he was assistant registrar of Grimes's Manchester Tutorial College. In 1887, he married Katherine Edwards; they had a daughter. Rylands was an uncle of the academic Dadie Rylands. Rylands authored the book "Crime: Its Causes and Remedy" (1889). Rylands was best known as an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He denied the historicity of Jesus. L. Gordon Rylands Louis Gordon Rylands (July 10, 1862 - December 20, 1942), best known as L. Gordon Rylands was a British criminologist and writer. Rylands was born in Warrington, Lancashire. His father was the politician Peter Rylands. He was educated at Charterhouse and
Rylands v Fletcher been concerned that the reasonable use test, which appears in nuisance, is not applicable to cases brought under "Rylands". The first requirement under "Rylands" is that the defendant "for his own purposes brings onto land and collects and keeps there". In "Rylands", this was the keeping of water in a reservoir; other cases in England and Wales have illustrated what sort of material is considered. In "British Celanese v AH Hunt", the accumulation was of metal foil strips. "For his own purpose" is not understood to be "for his benefit", although that was what Blackburn was referring to at the