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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British judge, politician, lawyer and peer best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire to a family of Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School.
William Murray, 1st earl of Mansfield (born March 2, 1705, Scone, Perthshire, Scot.—died March 20, 1793, London, Eng.) was the chief justice of the King’s Bench of Great Britain from 1756 to 1788, who made important contributions to commercial law.
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May 18, 2018 · William Murray, first earl of Mansfield, was an eighteenth-century English lawyer and judge who, along with sir william blackstone and sir edward coke, played an important part in molding U.S. law. His revision of property law and his formulation of basic principles of contract law provided the basis for modern commercial law .
William Murray, 1st earl of Mansfield, (born March 2, 1705, Scone, Perthshire, Scot.—died March 20, 1793, London, Eng.), British jurist. Called to the bar in 1730, he gained a wide reputation in 1737 when he eloquently supported before the House of Commons a merchants’ petition to stop Spanish assaults on their ships.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law.
May 23, 2024 · William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC (2 March 1705 – 20 March 1793), was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was a member of the Scottish Clan Murray and was educated in Perth, Scotland before moving to London at the age o.
William Murray, first Earl of Mansfield 1705-1793, judge, was the fourth son of David, fifth viscount Stormont, by Margery, only child of David Scott of Scotstarvet. Muray was born at the Abbey of Scone on 2 March 1704-5, and educated successively at Perth grammar school, at Westminster School, where he was king's scholar in 1719, and at Christ ...
