Sir William Blackstone
Former Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Sir William Blackstone was an English jurist, justice and Tory politician most noted for his Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the best-known description of the doctrines of the English common law. Wikipedia
Born: July 10, 1723, City of London, United Kingdom
Died: February 14, 1780 (age 56 years), Wallingford, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, and John Selden
Education: University of Oxford, Pembroke College, and Charterhouse School
Children: William Bertie Blackstone
Spouse: Sarah Clitherow (m. 1761)
Books
The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books
1765
Public wrongs
1774
Private wrongs
1774
An Analysis of the Laws of England
1756
Rights of things
1774
Blackstone's Commentaries: With Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States, and of the Commonwealth of Virginia