Thomas Bayly Howell FRS (6 September 1767 – 13 April 1815) was an English lawyer and writer who edited and lent his name to Howell's State Trials.
Life Thomas Bayly Howell was 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.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 on public law in England. Former compilations of the subject were published by Thomas Salmon, Sollom Emlyn and Francis Hargrave over the previous century. Howell worked on the project from 1809 to 1814, his son, Thomas Jones Howell taking over from him. A modern edition of the State Trials was edited by Donald Thomas and published in two volumes in 1972.
Honours Fellow of the Royal Society, (1804) Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries
References
Bibliography Baildon, W. P. (ed.) (1896) The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: Admissions, 1, 502 Baildon, W. P. (ed.) (1902) The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: The Black Books, 4, 240, 249 Burke, J. (1833–38) A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, 4 vols
, 2 vols Wallace, J. W. (1882) The Reporters, 4th ed., 64–9 General Index to the Collection of State Trials compiled by Howell and Howell (1828), by David Jardine Howell's Complete Collection of State Trials, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783: 1809 edition, vol I: 1163–1600 (1816 edition, vol I: 1163–1600) 1809 edition, vol II: 1603–1627 1809 edition, vol III: 1627–1640 (1816 edition, vol III: 1627–1640) 1809 edition, vol IV: 1640–1649 (1816 edition, vol IV: 1640–1649) 1810 edition, vol V: 1650–1661 (1816 edition, vol V: 1650–1661) 1810 edition, vol VI: 1661–1678 (1816 edition, vol VI: 1661–1678) 1810 edition, vol VII: 1678–1680 (1816 edition, vol VII: 1678–1680) 1810 edition, vol VIII: 1680–1682 (1816 edition, vol VIII: 1680–1682) 1811 edition, vol IX: 1682–1684 (1816 edition, vol IX: 1682–1684) 1811 edition, vol X: 1680–1685 (1816 edition, vol X: 1684–1685) 1811 edition, vol XI: 1680–1688 (1816 edition, vol XI: 1680–1688) 1812 edition, vol XII: 1687–1696 (1816 edition, vol XII: 1687–1696) 1812 edition, vol XIII: 1696–1697 (1816 edition, vol XIII: 1696–1700) 1812 edition, vol XIV: 1700–1708 1812 edition, vol XV: 1710–1719 (1816 edition, vol XV: 1710-1719) 1812 edition, vol XVI: 1722–1725 1816 edition, vol XVII: 1726–1743 1813 edition, vol XVIII: 1743–1753 (1816 edition, vol XVIII: 1744–1753) 1816 edition, vol XIX: 1753–1770 1816 edition, vol XX: 1772–1777 1814 edition, vol XXI: 1778–1784 (1816 edition, vol XXI: 1778–1779) Continued from the Year 1783 to the Present Time: 1817 edition, vol XXII: 1783–1794 1817 edition, vol XXIII: 1793–1794 1818 edition, vol XXIV: 1794 1818 edition, vol XXV: 1794–1796 1819 edition, vol XXVI: 1796–1798 1820 edition, vol XXVII: 1798–1800 1820 edition, vol XXVIII: 1802–1803 1821 edition, vol XXIX: 1804–1806 1823 edition, vol XXXI: 1809–1813 1826 edition, vol XXXIII: 1817–1820
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