Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1803–1875)

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]

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 complete, with 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 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]

Attribution

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