Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (bapt. 26 September 1803 – 17 May 1875) was an English legal writer.
Life
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.
He died in Islington, London, in the spring of 1875.
Works
Tomlins was the author of:
- 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 (23 & 24 Vic. cap. 134) complete, with an 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 Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds 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).
References
- ^ Carlyle, Edward Irving (1899). "Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 18.
- England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1837-1915
- "Deaths". London Evening Standard. 20 May 1875. p. 7. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
- Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century as Exemplified in the Chronicles of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury, from A.D. MCLXXIII. to MCCII., London: Whittaker & Co., 1844
- 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. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 18.