10 Facts About Edmund Law

Edmund Law was a churchman in the Church of England.

Edmund Law served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, as Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge from 1764 to 1769, and as bishop of Carlisle from 1768 to 1787.

The senior Edmund Law seems on his marriage to have settled on his wife's property at Buck Crag, about four miles from Staveley.

Edmund Law was said to be a great personal influence on the intellectual development of Richard Watson, Bishop of Landaff.

In 1737, Edmund Law was presented with the living of Greystoke in Cumberland, the gift of which at this time devolved on the university, and soon afterwards he married Mary, daughter of John Christian, of Ewanrigg, Cumberland.

In 1760, Edmund Law was appointed librarian, or rather proto-bibliothecarius, of the university of Cambridge, an office created in 1721, and first filled by Dr Conyers Middleton, and in 1764 he was made Knightbridge professor of moral philosophy.

In 1768, Edmund Law was recommended by the Duke of Grafton, then chancellor of the university, to the bishopric of Carlisle.

Edmund Law's voice was never raised above its ordinary pitch.

In 1777 Edmund Law published an edition of the Works of Locke, in 4 vols.

Edmund Law's interleaved Bible, with many manuscript notes, is preserved in the British Museum.