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BLACKBURN, See also:COLIN BLACKBURN, See also:BARON (1813-1896) , See also:British See also:judge, was See also:born in See also:Selkirkshire in 1813, and educated at See also:Eton and at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, taking high mathematical honours in 1835. He was called to the See also:bar in 1838, and went the See also:northern See also:circuit. His progress was at first slow, and he employed himself in See also:reporting and editing, with T. F. See also:Ellis, eight volumes of the highly-esteemed Ellis and Blackburn reports. His deficiency in all the more brilliant qualities of the See also:advocate almost confined his practice to commercial cases, in which he obtained considerable employment in his circuit; but he continued to belong to the outside bar, and was so little known to the legal See also:world that his promotion to a See also:puisne judgeship in the See also:court of See also:queen's See also:bench in 1859 was at first ascribed to See also:Lord See also:Campbell's partiality for his countrymen, but Lord See also:Lyndhurst, Lord See also:Wensleydale and Lord See also:Cranworth came forward to defend the See also:appointment. Blackburn himself is said to have thought that a See also:county court judgeship was about to be offered him, which he had resolved to decline. He soon proved himself one of the soundest lawyers on the bench, and when he was promoted to the court of See also:appeal in 1876 was considered the highest authority on See also:common See also:law. In 1876 he was made a lord of appeal and a See also:life peer. Both in this capacity and as judge of the queen's bench he delivered many judgments of the highest importance, and no decisions have been received with greater respect. In 1886 he was appointed a member of the See also:commission charged to prepare a See also:digest of the criminal law, but retired on See also:account of indisposition in the following See also:year. He died at his See also:country See also:residence, Doonholm in See also:Ayrshire, on the 8th of See also:January 1896.

He was the author of a valuable See also:

work on the Law of Sales. See The Times, loth of January 1896; E. See also:Manson, Builders of our Law (1904).

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