Thomas Jones Howell

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Thomas Jones Howell (1793-1858), [1] only son of Thomas Bayly Howell, [2] was born on 24 December 1793. [1] He was admitted to Westminster School on 21 March 1806 and left in 1811. [3] He was admitted of Lincoln's Inn on 9 November 1814 (Register) [4] and called to the bar by the Society of that Inn on 17 May 1822. [1] He was appointed Judge Advocate of the Forces and Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court at Gibraltar in 1822. [2] He was Secretary to the Commissioners of Colonial Inquiry in 1830, and Commissioner for the West India Islands' Relief in 1832 [1] under the West India Loan Act 1832 (2 & 3 Will 4 c 125). [5] In 1833 was appointed Inspector of Factories [1] under the Factory Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will 4 c 103) [6] which office he continued to hold until his death. [2] He was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for Gloucestershire. [7]

He was of Prinknash Park, Gloucestershire, before [8] he sold Prinknash to James Ackers in 1847. [9] He died at 6 Eaton Place West, London, [1] on 4 June 1858. [8]

He was twice married (in 1817 and 1851). [10] On 4 September 1817 he married Susanna-Maria (died 15 October 1842), eldest daughter of Alexander Macleod of Harris, Inverness. [7] They had three daughters and eight sons, including the reverend William Charles Howell, [2] and Henry Hyett Howell who was director of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. [11] He then married Ellen, daughter of Thomas Fookes. They had one daughter and one son, [9] barrister Alan George Ferrers Howell. [12]

Howell edited the 'State Trials' (vols. xxii. 1815-xxxiii. 1826). [10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Boase, Frederic (1892). Modern English Biography: Containing Many Thousand Memoirs of Persons who Have Died Since the Year 1850, with an Index to the Most Interesting Matter. Netherton and Worth, for the author.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "T J Howell Esq" in "Obituary of Eminent Persons". The Illustrated London News. Volume 32. 26 June 1858. Page 639:
  3. ↑ England), Westminster School (London (1928). The Record of Old Westminsters: A Biographical List of All Those who are Known to Have Been Educated at Westminster School from the Earliest Times to 1927. Printed at the Chiswick Press.
  4. ↑ England), Lincoln's Inn (London (1896). The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn ... Lincoln's Inn.
  5. ↑ 33 The Legal Oberserver 134; Statutes of the United Kingdom, p 761. For the citation, see West India Loan Act 1879.
  6. ↑ Thomas Tapping. The Factory Acts. Shaw and Sons. 1855. p 16. For the short title, see Norcutt, p 12.
  7. 1 2 Burke, John; Burke, Sir Bernard (1850). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland. Henry Colburn.
  8. 1 2 Cave, Edward (1858). The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer: Volume the first [-fifth], for the year 1731 [-1735] ... Printed and sold at St John's Gate [by Edward Cave]; by F. Jefferies in Ludgate-Street.
  9. 1 2 Society, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological (1882). Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.
  10. 1 2 Goodwin, Gordon (1891). "Howell, Thomas Bayly"  . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 117.
  11. ↑ Woodward, Henry (1899). Geological Magazine. Cambridge University Press.
  12. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1885). Men-at-the-bar: A Biographical Hand-list of the Members of the Various Inns of Court, Including Her Majesty's Judges, Etc. author.
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