About John Eardley Wilmot
Lived 1709 – 1792 (aged 82). John Eardley Wilmot was a judge.
Career As a young barrister, John Eardley Wilmot was taken up by Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, who was Lord Chancellor from 1733 to 1737, Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, the next Lord Chancellor, 1737 to 1756, and Sir Dudley Ryder, an Attorney General and Lord Chief Justice.
William Blackstone, author of the famous Commentaries on the Laws of England (four volumes, 1765–1769) was one of Wilmot's close friends. another by Dance now at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, with a copy in the Royal Courts of Justice, and a third attributed to Joseph Wright of Derby, now in the Inner Temple.
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Who was John Eardley Wilmot?
English judge (1709-1792)
When was John Eardley Wilmot born?
John Eardley Wilmot was born on 16 August 1709 in Derby.
When did John Eardley Wilmot die?
John Eardley Wilmot died on 5 February 1792 in London.
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John Eardley Wilmot was a judge.
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