Thomas Bayly Howell

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Thomas Bayly Howell (6 September 1767 – 13 April 1815) was an English lawyer and writer who lent his name to Howell's State Trials.

[edit] Life

Born, in Jamaica, his family returned to England in 1770 to settle at Prinknash Park near Gloucester. Howell studied at Christ Church, Oxford but did not graduate, instead moving on to Lincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1790.

In 1808, William Cobbett asked Howell to edit a new edition of the State Trials, a work aspiring to aggregate all the important cases on public law in England. Howell worked on the project from 1809 to 1814, his son, Thomas Jones Howell taking over from him.

[edit] Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society, (1804);
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

[edit] Bibliography

J. Burke (1833-8) A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 vols
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
Goodwin, G. "Howell, Thomas Bayly (1767–1815)", rev. Jonathan Harris, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1] <accessed 27 Feb 2006> (subscription required)
Wallace, J.W. (1882) The Reporters, 4th ed., 64–9