Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1803–1875)

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Not to be confused with Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1762–1841).

Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (bapt. 26 September 1803 – 17 May 1875) was an English legal writer.

Life

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Tomlins was born in London, the son of Alfred Tomlins, a clerk in the Irish exchequer office, Paradise Row, Lambeth, and his wife Elizabeth. He was the nephew of Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins. He entered St. Paul's School, London on 6 February 1811, and was admitted to practice in London as an attorney in the Michaelmas term of 1827.[1]

He died in Islington, London, in the spring of 1875.[2][3]

Works

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Tomlins was the author of:[1]

  • A Popular Law Dictionary, London, 1838.
  • Yseldon, a Perambulation of Islington and its Environs, pt. i. London, 1844; complete work, London, 1858.
  • The New Bankruptcy Act (23 & 24 Vic. cap. 134) complete, with an Analysis of its Enactments, London, 1861.

He also edited Sir Thomas Littleton's Treatise of Tenures (1841); revised Alexander Fraser Tytler's Elements of General History (1844); translated the Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds of Jocelin of Brakelond (1844) for the Popular Library of Modern Authors;[4] and contributed to the Shakespeare Society A New Document regarding the Authority of the Master of the Revels which had been discovered on the patent roll (Shakespeare Society Papers, 1847, iii. 1–6).[1]

References

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