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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.
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   Who is Lord Mansfield?

   • An English Chief Justice of the King's Bench for over three decades, Scottish jurist William Murray, Lord Mansfield is noted for devising the foundational rules and regulations that established equity in the British system of business law, including rules regarding bills of exchanges, promissory notes, and bank checks.

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   Who was Lord Mansfield's wife?

   • Mansfield's marriage to Lady Finch was barren. His title, which succeeds to this day, passed to his nephew, David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield. 'Here Murray long enough his country's pride is now no more than Tully or than Hyde '.

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   What happened to Lord Mansfield?

   • Lord Mansfield was childless and on his death in 1793, the barony became extinct. He was succeeded in the 1776 earldom according to the special remainder by his nephew's wife Louisa, the second Countess, and in the 1792 earldom according to the special remainder by his nephew Lord Stormont, who became the second Earl.

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   Did Lord Mansfield free slaves?

   • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2014 Popular history often credits Lord Mansfield with freeing the slaves in England by his decision in the Somerset case. That he did not do so is by now agreed and is a point featured in modern scholarship on slavery.

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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.

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   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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   He was a Tory politician and served as a Lord of the Treasury from 1834 to 1835 in the first administration of Sir Robert Peel. In 1843, he succeeded his grandmother the second Countess of Mansfield (who had outlived her husband by forty-seven years) and became in addition the third Earl of Mansfield of the 1776 creation.

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   Holding many high ranking judicial posts he was Lord Chief Justice of England from 1756-88. He played a key role in ending slavery in England with his judgment in the case of James Somerset. In 1776 he was created Earl of Mansfield.

   • Occupation: Statesman,Lawyer,Abolitionist

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   Jan 10, 2014 · Popular history often credits Lord Mansfield with freeing the slaves in England by his decision in the Somerset case. That he did not do so is by now agreed and is a point featured in modern scholarship on slavery.

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   May 18, 2018 · William Murray, Lord Mansfield (1705-1793) established a body of rules regarding commercial transactions that became the foundation of British commercial law.

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    In the first modern biography of Lord Mansfield (1705-1793), Norman Poser details the turbulent political life of eighteenth-century Britain's most powerful judge, serving as chief justice for an unprecedented thirty-two years.