Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Blackstone, Sir William
Blackstone, Sir William, s. Charles, of St. Michael-le-Querne, London, gent. Pembroke Coll., matric. 1 Dec, 1738, aged 15; All Souls' Coll., B.C.L. 1745, D.C.L. 1750, bar.-at-law, Middle Temple, 1746, professor of English law at Oxford 1758-62, principal of New Inn Hall 1761-6, solicitor-general to the Queen 1763, a judge of Common Pleas and Queen's Bench 1770, author of 'the Commentaries,' M.P. Hindon 1761-8, Westbury 1768-74, died 14 Feb., 1780.