Thomas Edlyne Tomlins

Not to be confused with Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins.

Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1804–1872) was an English legal writer.

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.[1]

Works

Tomlins was the author of:[1]

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).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3  Carlyle, Edward Irving (1899). "Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 18.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Carlyle, Edward Irving (1899). "Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 18. 

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