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When was Sir William Blackstone knighted?
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Sir William Blackstone
William Blackstone, oil painting attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir William Blackstone, the renowned English jurist and author of the Commentaries on the Laws of England, was knighted in 1770.1