William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield,, was a British barrister, politician and judge best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire into the Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School.
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Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, 1778. Dido Belle (left) and Lady Elizabeth Murray (right)
Lady Elizabeth Finch (Later Countess of Mansfield) (left) and her sister Lady Henrietta, Duchess of Cleveland (right).
Murray circa 1737; portrait by John Giles Eccardt assistant of Jean-Baptiste van Loo.
Portrait of Lord Mansfield. Murray in his parliamentary robes as an earl, by John Singleton Copley 1783
Francis Hargrave, who represented James Somersett in this case
Kenwood House, Hampstead, London
Kenwood Library, considered to be one of the best Robert Adams-designed roomPoliticians born in the 1700s 6
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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield,, was a British barrister, politician and judge best known for his reforms to English law. Born in Scone Palace, Perthshire into the Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth before moving to London at the age of 13 to study at Westminster School. Accepted into Christ Church, Oxford, in May 1723, Mansfield graduated four years later and returned to London, where he was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn in November 1730 and quickly gained a reputation as an excellent barrister.
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