William Blackstone, English lawyer, judge, and politician (died 1780)

William Blackstone

English jurist, judge, and politician (1723–1780)

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. Born into a middle-class family in London, Blackstone was…