Sir William Blackstone

(1723-1780)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Blackstone, William, Sir, 1723-1780 NRA: Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780) Knight Judge MP Historian DNB: Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780), legal writer and judge LBT ID: WiBlack1780 VIAF ID: 39385957 LOC ID: n79120719	B/BAP: 1723-07-10 DIED: 1780-02-14
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English jurist, the author of Commentaries on the Laws of England, 4 vols (1765-69).
REFERENCES TO Sir William Blackstone: Robert Southey to Joseph Cottle, 13 March 1797 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 3 [William Hazlitt], “On Jealousy and Spleen of Party” in The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1826) 2:409-47 Found 1: ¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 1: ¶ 1n William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. VIII. 1771-1776 Found 1: ¶ 16 Ch IV. 1809-1812 Found 1: ¶ 19 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 43 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. V. 1797 Found 1: ¶ 18 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 19: Peter Pindar Found 1: ¶ 25 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 95 Chapter VII Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Prelude 2 Found 1: ¶ 10 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 1: ¶ 20 Ch. VII 1822-23 Found 1: ¶ 22