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, London, United Kingdom
Died: February 14, 1780 (age 56 years), Wallingford, United Kingdom
Influenced by: Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, and John Selden
Spouse: Sarah Clitherow (m. 1761)
Children: William Bertie Blackstone
Party: Tories
Books
The Student's Blackstone: Commentaries on the Laws of England, in Four Books
1765
Commentaries on the Laws of England
1765
Private wrongs
1774
The sovereignty of the law: selections from Blackstone's Commentaries on the laws of England
1770
An Analysis of the Laws of England
1756
Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books ... Abridged ... with Notes ...
1906
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