William Salkeld (legal writer)
William Salkeld (1671โ1715), legal writer, was the son of Samuel Salkeld of Fallowden,
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, on 22 April 1687, at the age of fifteen.[1] He entered himself as a student of the Middle Temple
, 2 May 1692, and was called to the bar on 3 June 1698.
He settled in
Serjeant-at-Law
, and, in spite of the change of dynasty, he presided over the Carmarthen circuit until his death on 14 Sept. following. He was buried in the church of Fifehide Nevill, where a monument was erected to his memory. His widow died in 1723, aged 42, leaving three sons and three daughters.
Serjeant Salkeld is best remembered as a diligent and painstaking
law reporter, his Reports of Cases in the King's Bench, 1689โ1712, published posthumously in 1717 and 1718, being the standing authority for that period. With others he translated into English the Reports of Sir Creswell Levinz
in the King's Bench, 1660โ1697, which appeared in 1722.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Salkeld, William". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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