Name Thomas Tomlins Role Writer | Died July 1, 1841 | |
Books A Popular Law-dictionary, Familiarly Explaining the Terms and Nature of English Law: Adapted to the Comprehension of Persons Not Educated for the Legal Profession, and Affording Information Peculiarly Useful to Magistrates, Merchants, Parochial Officers, and Others | ||
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1804–1872) was an English legal writer.
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Life
The son of Alfred Tomlins, a clerk in the Irish exchequer office, Paradise Row, Lambeth, and 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.
Works
Tomlins was the author of:
He also edited Sir Thomas Littleton's Treatise of Tenures (1841); revised Alexander Fraser Tytler's Elements of General History (1844); translated the Chronicles of Jocelin of Brakelond (1844) for the "Popular Library of Modern Authors"; 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).