John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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English lawyer, judge, politician, and writer on English legal and constitutional history
Date of Birth: 07-Mar-1670
Place of Birth: England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 19-Dec-1746
Profession: judge, politician
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan
- John Fortescue Aland, 1st Baron Fortescue of Credan (7 March 1670 – 19 December 1746), of Stapleford Abbots, Essex, was an English lawyer, judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons for two years from 1715 to 1717.
- He wrote on English legal and constitutional history, and was said to have influenced Thomas Jefferson.
- A member of both the Middle Temple and Inner Temple, he became a King's Counsel in 1714 and was then appointed Solicitor General, first to the Prince of Wales (later George II) and then to his father George I in 1715.
- After a short stint as a Member of Parliament, Fortescue Aland was knighted and elevated to the Bench as a Baron of the Exchequer in 1717.
- He was subsequently a justice of the Court of King's Bench (1718–1727) and of the Court of Common Pleas (1728–1746), save for a brief hiatus between 1727 and 1728 which has been attributed to George II's displeasure with one of his legal opinions. In 1714 Fortescue Aland produced a volume entitled The Difference between an Absolute and Limited Government based on a manuscript in the Bodleian Library by his distant ancestor Sir John Fortescue (c.?1394 – c.
- 1480), to which he added an extended preface.
- It has been said that this is the earliest work in English on constitutional history.
- Jefferson referred to Fortescue Aland's views in the 1719 edition of this work, and in another preface by Fortescue Aland to a collection of judicial decisions which he edited, entitled Reports of Select Cases in All the Courts of Westminster-Hall (1748).
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