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Born c.1385 • England
Died c.1479 • England
Title / Office Queen’s Bench Division (1442-1461), England
Notable Works “De laudibus legum Angliae”
Subjects Of Study England • English law • constitution
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Sir William Blackstone
English jurist
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Sir Edward Coke
English jurist
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
British author, philosopher, and statesman
Painting of Oliver Cromwell in black armor with a white sash, standing outdoors as a young attendant in red helps adjust his armor.
Oliver Cromwell
English statesman
Mansfield, William Murray, 1st earl of, earl of Mansfield, baron of Mansfield, Lord Mansfield
William Murray, 1st earl of Mansfield
British jurist
Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
English legal scholar
George Jeffreys, detail of an oil painting attributed to H. Claret; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys
English judge
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Henry de Bracton
British jurist
Brackley, Thomas Egerton, Viscount
Thomas Egerton, Viscount Brackley
English lawyer and diplomat
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Sir Roger Twysden
English historian
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Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
English lawyer
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Sir Richard Empson
English lawyer
Frederic Maitland, detail of an oil painting by Beatrice Lock, 1906; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Frederic William Maitland
British jurist
Sir Frederick Pollock, portrait by R.G. Eves; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet
British scholar
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William Stubbs
British historian
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Albert Venn Dicey
British jurist
Sir James Dyer, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1575; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir James Dyer
English jurist
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, sepia drawing by George Frederick Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet
British law scholar
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Vacarius
Roman law scholar
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Hans Kelsen
American scholar