Sir Basil Blackwell (1889 – 9 April 1984) was born Basil Henry Blackwell in Oxford, England. He was the son of Benjamin Henry Blackwell (1849-1924) the founder of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford, which went on to become the Blackwell's family publishing and bookshop empire, located on Broad Street in central Oxford. The publishing arm is now part of Wiley-Blackwell.
He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Merton College, Oxford.
Blackwell was a prosecution witness in the 1966 private prosecution attempt to bar the book Last Exit to Brooklyn from UK publication.
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| Date of death | 9 April 1984 |
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