Sir william blackstone biography of william hill
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William Blackstone () was born in Whickham, Durham, England, the son and namesake of a wealthy landowner and poultryman whose surname was also spelled “Blaxton” or “Blackston.”
Young William earned his A.B. and M.A. from Emmanuel College of Cambridge University in and , respectively, and he then became an ordained clergyman of the Anglican Church. Independent-minded, restless, and at odds with the Anglican hierarchy, Blackstone joined an expedition organized in by Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Council for New England that took him to the shores of Massachusetts Bay. When the leader of this voyage, Robert Gorges, the son of Ferdinando, returned to England, Blackstone elected to remain. He eventually established a residence in present-day Boston on the Shawmut Peninsula near Beacon Hill.
Boston’s first English settler remained on this site until the religiously left-learning Puritans (who wished to “purify” the Anglican Church of Roman Catholic “trappings”) settled in Boston in and the years after that. Because of theological and territorial disagreements with his new neighbors, Blackstone moved west in to enjoy the solitude and tranquility of a place he called “Study Hill,” in the Lonsdale section of Cumberland on the east bank of the river that now bears his name. This mov
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Blackstone and his Commentaries: Biography, Law, History
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Preface One of the most celebrated works in the Anglo-American legal tradition, William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England (–69), is currently attracting renewed attention. Of course the Commentaries no longer dominate legal education and studies as once they did, espcially in North America during the century after their first publication. But Blackstone continues to be regularly cited in courts on both sides of the Atlantic, and elsewhere throughout the common law world. His Commentaries provide constitutional, cultural, intellectual and legal historians with a remarkably comprehensive account of the roles of law, lawyers and the courts in the imperial superpower that was England on the cusp of the industrial revolution. But they also retain some contemporary relevance, and not only for their literary qualities; indeed the sustained impact of Blackstone’s work, long after its first publication, is a further reason why the author and his book can still repay further study. This volume had its origins in a symposium on ‘William Blackstone: Life, Thought, Influence’ held over two hot Adelaide days in December That Antipodean setting
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William Blackstone ( - )
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Son attention to detail Charles (Blaxton) Blackstone arena Mary (Bigg) Blackstone
Brother catch the fancy of Charles Blackstone and Henry Blackstone
DescendantsFather tablets Mary (Blackstone) Cole
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