William Empson (lawyer)

William Empson (lawyer)

William Empson (1791–1852) was a barrister educated at Winchester, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was Professor of general polity and the laws of England at the East India Company College 1824–52. He contributed regularly to the Edinburgh Review (1823-49) and was for some years its editor (1847–52).

On 27 June 1838, he married Charlotte Jeffrey (b.1814), daughter of Francis Lord Jeffrey [The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, Volume 10 [http://carlyleletters.dukejournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/1/lt-18380718-TC-JAC-01 Duke University archive] accessed 9 October 2007] .

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* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9903E0DC1438E334BC4D52DFB7668388649FDE Obituary notice - The New York Times, January 15th, 1853]

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