Edmund Law

For the British architect, see Edmund Francis Law.

The Right Reverend

Edmund Law
Bishop of Carlisle
Edmund Law, by George Romney, 1781
ChurchChurch of England
SeeCarlisle
In office1768–1787
PredecessorCharles Lyttelton
SuccessorJohn Douglas
Personal details
Born(1703-06-06)6 June 1703
Cartmel, Lancashire, England
Died14 August 1787(1787-08-14) (aged 84)
Dalston, Cumberland, England
Arms of Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle: Argent, on a bend between two cocks gules three mullets of the field[1]

Edmund Law (6 June 1703 – 14 August 1787) was a churchman in the Church of England. He served as Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, as Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy in the University of Cambridge from 1764 to 1769, and as bishop of Carlisle from 1768 to 1787.

  1. ^ Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.589