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Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) 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. [1]
William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 – November 7, 1935) was an American evangelist and Christian Zionist. He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial (1891), a petition which called upon the United States to actively return the Holy Land to the Jewish people .
He reported that Blackford's Reports were well known in Westminster and regularly used by the judiciary, and Irving compared him to William Blackstone. [53] The attribution stuck with Blackford, and earned him the nickname "Indiana Blackstone." His reports by then had become a staple in law schools and a necessity in most law firms in the ...
The title page of the first book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1st ed., 1765). The Commentaries on the Laws of England [1] (commonly, but informally known as Blackstone's Commentaries) are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford between 1765 and 1769.
William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone; 1595 – 26 May 1675) [1] was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston and Rhode Island. Early life and education
The Blackstone Memorial of 1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian Restorationist, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews. It was signed by many leading American citizens and presented to President Benjamin Harrison .
William Blackstone (1723–1780) was an English judge and jurist. William Blackstone may also refer to: William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881), his grandson, MP for Wallingford; William Blaxton, sometimes spelled Blackstone (1595–1675), early New England settler; William E. Blackstone (1841–1935), American evangelist and Christian Zionist
William Thomas Blackstone, Jr. (December 8, 1931 – November 14, 1977) was an American academic and philosopher. A graduate of Elon College and Duke University , Blackstone established himself as a career academic at the University of Florida and University of Georgia .