- Thomas Bayly Howell
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name = Thomas Bayly Howell
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birth_date = birth date|1767|9|6
birth_place =Jamaica
death_date = death date and age|1815|4|13|1767|9|6
death_place =
other_names =
known_for = "Howell's State Trials "
occupation =Lawyer
education =Christ Church, Oxford
nationality = flag|Great BritainThomas Bayly Howell FRS (
6 September ,1767 –13 April ,1815 ) was an Englishlawyer andwriter who edited and lent his name to "Howell's State Trials ".Life
Born, in
Jamaica , his family returned to England in 1770 to settle atPrinknash Park nearGloucester . Howell studied atChrist Church, Oxford but did not graduate, instead moving on toLincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1790.Goodwin (2004)]In 1808,
William Cobbett asked Howell to edit a new edition of the "State Trials", a work aspiring to aggregate all the important cases onpublic law in England. Howell worked on the project from 1809 to 1814, his son,Thomas Jones Howell taking over from him.Honours
*Fellow of the
Royal Society , (1804);
*Fellow of theSociety of Antiquaries .References
Bibliography
*Baildon, W. P. (ed.) (1896) "The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: Admissions", 1, 502
*— (1902) "The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: The Black Books", 4, 240, 249
*Burke, J. (1833-8) "A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland", 4 vols
*Goodwin, G. (2004) " [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13980 Howell, Thomas Bayly (1767–1815)] ", rev. Jonathan Harris, "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ", Oxford University Press, accessed 27 February 2006, ODNBsub
*Wallace, J. W. (1882) "The Reporters", 4th ed., 64–9
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