William Empson (lawyer)

He was educated at Winchester School, where he was a schoolfellow of Thomas Arnold, and at Trinity College, Cambridge.

[2] On 2 July 1824 he became professor of "general polity and the laws of England" at the East India College, Haileybury, a chair which had been formerly occupied by Sir James Mackintosh.

[2] Empson began to contribute to the Edinburgh Review in 1823, and by 1849 had written over sixty articles for it on law, politics, and literary topics.

Empson had picked up on Bowring's statement that Bentham was remarkably selfish, comparable only to his follower James Mill.

[3] Other articles offended Edward Bulwer and Henry Brougham, who called him a bad imitator of Macaulay.