biography
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Blackstone, Sir William
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| lived:
| (1723–80)
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| biography:
| Jurist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and in 1746 was called to the bar. He became the first holder of the Vinerian chair of common law at Oxford (1758), where he delivered the first lectures in English law ever given in a university. MP for Hindon, Wiltshire (1761–70), and Principal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, he was made solicitor general to the Queen (1763) and a judge of the Court of Common Pleas (1770–80). From 1765 to 1769 he published his celebrated Commentaries on the Laws of England, based on his lectures, which became the most influential and comprehensive exposition of English law. |
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