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Sir William Blackstone
William Blackstone, oil painting attributed to Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
After the death of his mother when he was 12 years old, Sir William Blackstone was educated by his uncle, Thomas Bigg, who was a London surgeon. Under his uncle's guidance, Blackstone attended the Charterhouse school and later studied at Pembroke College, Oxford.1