William Empson (lawyer)

He was educated at Winchester School, where he was a schoolfellow of Thomas Arnold, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated B.A. 1812, and M.A. 1815. On 2 July 1824 he became professor of "general polity and the laws of England" at the East India College, Haileybury, a chair which had been formerly occupied by Sir James Mackintosh. He was a close friend of his colleague, Robert Malthus. Empson died at Haileybury 10 December 1852. ==Edinburgh Review==

Empson began to contribute to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, and by 1849 had written over sixty articles for it on law, politics, and literary topics. In January 1845 he wrote on the Fragment of the Church of Thomas Arnold, with whose views on educational and church questions he was in sympathy. Other articles offended Edward Bulwer and Henry Brougham, who called him a bad imitator of Macaulay. Empson succeeded to the editorship of the Edinburgh Review in 1847, on the death of Macvey Napier. ==Family==

On 27 June 1838, Empson married Charlotte Jeffrey (b. 1814), daughter of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey. ==Notes==