William Blackstone
1723–80
Legal writer and judge. Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford, 1743; dean of laws and bursar, 1746. BCL, Oxford, 1745; DCL, 1750. Called to the bar at the Middle Temple, 1746; bencher, 1761. Assessor, or deputy judge, of the vice-chancellor’s court, Oxford, 1753–9; Vinerian Professor of common law, 1758–66. MP, 1761–70. Justice of common pleas, 1770.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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