Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (1803–1875)

Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (bapt. 26 September 1803 – 17 May 1875) was an English legal writer.

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 (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;^[4] 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. Vol. 57. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 18.