BLACKBURN, COLIN BLACKBURN, BARON (1813 '896), British judge, was born in Selkirkshire, and educated at Eton and Trinity college, Cambridge. He edited the eight volumes of the Ellis and Blackburn reports, and had a considerable com mercial practice, but was unknown to the general public when he was promoted to a judgeship by Lord Campbell in 1859. "Who is Mr. Blackburn?" enquired The Times, but Blackburn proved one of the soundest lawyers on the bench, and when he went to the court of appeal in 1876 was considered the highest authority on common law. In the same year he was made a lord of appeal. Blackburn wrote a standard book on The Law of Sales. See .E. Manson, Builders of Our Law (1904)•