Viewing William N. Welsby, editor, "Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (1846).William N. Welsby, editor, "Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (1846).William Newland Welsby (1802-1864) was called to the bar in 1826, but spent much of his life as Recorder of the city of Chester and writing and editing several multi-volume collections of court decisions and legal treatises including the fourth volume of Blackstone's "Commentaries" (24th edition, 1844). He also wrote most of the sixteen biographical sketches for "Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (1846), which can be found here. |