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People

Charles Blackstone Charles Blackstone (born March 21, 1977)Kevin Frazier"Wine and Bellow: An Interview with Charles Blackstone," Open Letters Monthly, Fall 2013. is an American writer. His most recent novel is the semi-autobiographical ''Vintage Attraction'' (2013) ...

(born 1977), fiction writer *

Elliott Blackstone Elliott R. Blackstone (November 30, 1924 – October 25, 2006) was a sergeant in the San Francisco Police Department, known as a longtime advocate for the lesbian, gay and transgender community in that city. Early life Born in Aurora, Illin ...

(1924–2006), former police sergeant and LGBT advocate * Gay Blackstone (born 1952), American magician, producer, and director, widow of Harry Blackstone Jr. * Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), American painter * Harry Blackstone Sr. (1885–1965), famous American magician known as "The Great Blackstone" and father of Harry Blackstone, Jr. * Harry Blackstone Jr. (1934–1997), popular stage magician and television performer of the late 20th century * Ian Blackstone (born 1964), English former footballer * Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs at the University of Michigan * John Wilford Blackstone Sr. (1796–1868), American lawyer and legislator * John Wilford Blackstone Jr. (1835–1911), American lawyer and legislator * Milton Blackstone (1906–1983), publicity agent for

Eddie Fisher Edwin Jack Fisher (August 10, 1928 – September 22, 2010) was an American singer and actor. He was one of the most popular artists during the 1950s, selling millions of records and hosting his own TV show, '' The Eddie Fisher Show''. Actress E ...

Tessa Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone Tessa Ann Vosper Blackstone, Baroness Blackstone (born 27 September 1942) is an English politician and university administrator. Early life Her father, Geoffrey Vaughan Blackstone CBE GM, was the Chief Fire Officer for Hertfordshire and her ...

(born 1942), British politician *

Timothy Blackstone Timothy Beach Blackstone (March 28, 1829 – May 26, 1900) was an American railroad executive, businessman, philanthropist, and politician. He is descended from William Blaxton, an early settler of New England. He worked in the railroad industr ...

(1829–1900), Chicago Railroad and Stock Yard president * Sir

William Blackstone Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, Justice (title), justice, and Tory (British political party), Tory politician most noted for his ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'', which became the best-k ...

(1723–1780), English jurist **

Blackstone's formulation In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio (more recently referred to sometimes as Blackstone's formulation) is the idea that: as expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'', publishe ...

, a principle in criminal law named for the jurist ** The ''

Commentaries on the Laws of England The ''Commentaries on the Laws of England'' (commonly, but informally known as ''Blackstone's Commentaries'') are an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarend ...

'' by William Blackstone, a 1769 major legal text of the 18th century; often referred to as "Blackstone" or "Blackstone's ''Commentaries'' *

William Eugene Blackstone William Eugene Blackstone (October 6, 1841 – November 7, 1935) was an American Evangelism, evangelist and Christian Zionism, Christian Zionist. He was the author of the Blackstone Memorial (1891), a petition which called upon the United State ...

(1841–1935), American evangelist and Christian Zionist *

William Seymour Blackstone William Seymour Blackstone (1809–1881) was an English MP in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He was the son of James Blackstone, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and grandson of the legal writer William Blackstone (1723–1780). El ...

(1809–1881), 19th-century British MP and grandson of William Blackstone the jurist, above * William Blackstone, aka

William Blaxton William Blaxton (also spelled William Blackstone; 1595 – 26 May 1675) was an early English settler in New England and the first European settler of Boston and Rhode Island. Early life and education William Blaxton was born in Horncastle, Li ...

(1595–1675), early English settler in New England

Businesses

Blackstone & Co Blackstone & Co. was a Agricultural machinery, farm implement maker at Stamford, Lincolnshire, Stamford, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. History Company History This business was established in 1837 as Smith & Ashby later known as Rutland Iron W ...

, a diesel engine and agricultural engineering company in Stamford, Lincolnshire, which became Mirrlees Blackstone *

Blackstone Audio Blackstone Audio is an independent audiobook publisher in the United States, offering over 25,000 audiobooks. The company is based in Ashland, Oregon, with five in-house recording studios. Blackstone distributes directly to consumers via their ...

, publisher of audiobooks *

Blackstone Chambers Blackstone Chambers is a set of barristers' chambers in the Temple district of central London. Established in the 1950s, as of 2022 it had 119 tenants, of whom more than 50 are silks. Current notable members include Robert Anderson, Michael Be ...

, a set of barristers' chambers in London *

Blackstone Legal Fellowship The Blackstone Legal Fellowship is an American legal training and summer internship program for Christian law students, developed and facilitated by the Evangelical Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). About 3,000 law student ...

, legal training and internship program *

Black Stone Minerals Black Stone Minerals, L.P., or Black Stone Minerals, is a Houston, Texas-based oil and natural gas corporation. History The company was founded as W.T. Carter & Bro., a lumber company, in 1876. The company discovered the Double A Wells Field i ...

, a Houston-based oil and natural gas corporation *

Blackstone Press Blackstone Press Limited is a legal publisher that is a subsidiary of Oxford University Press. It was established in March 1988 by Alistair MacQueen. Its management was formerly that of Financial Training Publications, whose law list it purchased ...

, a subsidiary of Oxford University Press * Blackstone Winery, a Gonzales, California winery owned by

Constellation Brands Constellation Brands, Inc. is an American producer and marketer of beer, wine, and spirits. A ''Fortune'' 500 company, Constellation is the largest beer import company in the US, measured by sales, and has the third-largest market share (7.4 pe ...

Blackstone Inc. Blackstone Inc. is an American alternative investment management company based in New York City. It was founded in 1985 as a mergers and acquisitions firm by Peter Peterson and Stephen Schwarzman, who had previously worked together at Lehman ...

, American private equity, investment banking, and asset management firm *

Blackstones Bar Blackstones Bar is a bar located on Pine St off Longfellow Square in the West End (Portland, Maine) neighborhood of Portland, Maine. From its establishment in 1987, the bar served as a popular gathering place for members of the LGBTQ LGB ...

Maine's longest operating LGBTQ bar, and currently Portland's only LGBTQ bar.

Places

Australia

Blackstone, Queensland Blackstone is a suburb of Ipswich in the City of Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. In the , Blackstone had a population of 1,144 people. History The district was originally called Bundamba Creek but this caused confusion with nearby Bundamba, ...

, a suburb in the City of Ipswich *Blackstone, Western Australia, known as

Papulankutja Papulankutja (also referred to as Blackstone) is a large Aboriginal community located in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, within the Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku The Shire of Ngaanyatjarraku is a remote local government ...

Blackstone Heights, Tasmania Blackstone Heights is a rural/residential locality in the local government areas (LGA) of Meander Valley (97.5%) and West Tamar (2.5%) in the Launceston LGA region of Tasmania. The locality is about east of the town of Westbury. The 2016 cen ...

United Kingdom

Blackstone Edge Blackstone Edge ( ) is a gritstone escarpment at above sea level in the Pennine hills surrounded by moorland on the boundary between Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire in England. History Crossing the escarpment is Blackstone Edge Long C ...

, an area of moorland along the Lancashire (Greater Manchester) and West Yorkshire county boundary in England * Blackstone, West Sussex, England

United States

* Blackstone, Illinois *

Blackstone, Massachusetts Blackstone is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,208 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Providence metropolitan area. History This region was first inhabited by the Nipmuc. Blackstone was sett ...

Blackstone, Pennsylvania Blackstone is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern Unit ...

Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Island Blackstone is a predominantly residential neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island. It is in the northeast corner of the city and is bounded to the south and west by Lloyd Avenue and Hope Street respectively. It is one of six neighborhoods c ...

, a neighborhood **

Blackstone Boulevard Park Blackstone Boulevard Park is a public park and footpath that runs down the center of Blackstone Boulevard on the East Side, Providence, Rhode Island, East Side of Providence, Rhode Island. It is located in the Blackstone, Providence, Rhode Isla ...

, in Providence, Rhode Island ** Blackstone Park Conservation District, in Providence, Rhode Island ** Blackstone Park Historic District, in Providence, Rhode Island *

Blackstone, Virginia Blackstone, formerly named Blacks and Whites, and then Bellefonte, is a town in Nottoway County in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 3,621 at the 2010 census. History The settlement was founded as the village of "Blacks and Whites ...

Blackstone Army Airfield Blackstone Army Airfield , also known as Allen C. Perkinson Airport, is located two miles (3 km) east of the central business district of Blackstone, a town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. It is owned by the United States Army ...

, Virginia *The

Blackstone River The Blackstone River in the United States is a river that flows through Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It is long with a drainage area of 475 mi2 (1229 km2). It drains into the tidal river, Pawtucket River at Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Pawtuck ...

in Massachusetts and Rhode Island **The

Blackstone Valley The Blackstone Valley or Blackstone River Valley is a region of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It was a major factor in the American Industrial Revolution. It makes up part of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and Natio ...

, a National Heritage Corridor along the Blackstone River ** Blackstone River Bikeway, a planned rail trail **

Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School, or BVT for short, is a technical high school in Upton, Massachusetts, serving the thirteen towns of the Blackstone Valley. The school was established in 1964. The school offers eighteen ...

, Upton, Massachusetts

Canada

* Blackstone Lake, Ontario

Fiction

* ''Blackstone'' (novel), a 1972 novel featuring the character Edmund 'Beau' Blackstone, a fictional 19th century detective created by "Richard Falkirk" (Derek Lambert); the first of six such novels * Blackstone Chronicles, a series of mystery and thriller novels authored by John Saul * Blackstone Fortress, a type of space station in the fictional universe of ''Warhammer 40,000'' * ''Blackstone'' (TV series), the fictional Blackstone First Nation's struggles with corruption, politics, and the need for change *'' Blackstone, the Magic Detective,'' a radio series starring a fictionalized version of Harry Blackstone, Sr. * The Blackstone, a country club in the TV series ''

Royal Pains ''Royal Pains'' is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on the USA Network from 2009 to 2016. The series is based in part on contemporary concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies and follows Hank Lawson, ...

Other

Black Stone The Black Stone () is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Masjid al-Haram, Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is revered by Muslims as an Islamic relic which, according to Muslim tradi ...

, a Muslim object of reverence *

Blackstone Avenue Blackstone Avenue is a major roadway arterial in Fresno, California, United States, running from Stanislaus and O Streets near Downtown to Highway 41 northeastern part of the city. This street is the location of a number of historic structures ...

, a major roadway in Fresno, California, USA * Blackstone Hall, a dormitory at the University of Chicago *

The Blackstone Hotel The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 21-story hotel on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. Built between 1908 and 1910, it is on the Natio ...

, a Chicago hotel * Blackstone Hotel (Omaha, Nebraska), a 1915 Omaha landmark currently known as the Blackstone Center *

Blackstone Library T. B. Blackstone Memorial Library is part of the Chicago Public Library (CPL) System and is named for library benefactor Timothy Blackstone. The building was designed by Chicago architect Solon S. Beman. It is now known as the Chicago Public L ...

, Chicago's first public library *

Blackstone Memorial The Blackstone Memorial of 1891 was a petition written by William Eugene Blackstone, a Christian Restorationist, in favor of the delivery of Palestine to the Jews. It was signed by many leading American citizens and presented to President Benjamin ...

, a Zionist petition written by William Eugene Blackstone *Blackstone, a codename for

ColdFusion Adobe ColdFusion is a commercial rapid web-application development computing platform created by J. J. Allaire in 1995. (The programming language used with that platform is also commonly called ColdFusion, though is more accurately known as CF ...

7.0 - beta of ColdFusion MX 7.0, a product of Macromedia *Blackstone, in reference to the

Black P. Stones The Almighty Black P. Stone Nation (often abbreviated as BPS, BPSN, Black Peace Stones, Black P. Stones, Stones, or Moes) is an American street gang founded in Chicago. The gang was originally formed in the late 1950s as the Blackstone Rangers. ...

gang *HTC BlackStone, a Windows Mobile phone also known as the

HTC Touch HD The HTC Touch HD, also known as the HTC T828X or its codename the HTC Blackstone, is a Windows Mobile 6.1 Pocket PC designed and manufactured by HTC launched in 2008. Part of the HTC Touch Family, it features a larger, higher-resolution displa ...

Operation Blackstone Operation Blackstone was a part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa during World War II. The operation called for American amphibious troops to land at and capture the French-held port of Safi, Morocco, Safi in French Morocco. ...

, part of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in Africa during World War II