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 daugters 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 ffookes. 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 Frederic Boase. "Howell, Thomas Jones". Modern English Biography. Netherton and Worth. 1892. Volume 1 (A - H). Column 1558.
  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. ↑ G F Russell Barker and Alan H Stenning. "Howell, Thomas Jones". The Record of Old Westminsters. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. 1928. Volume 1. Page 489.
  4. ↑ The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn. Lincoln's Inn. 1896. Volume 2. Page 58.
  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 John B Burke. "Howell of Prinknash". A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland for 1850. Volume 1. Page 599.
  8. 1 2 Gent. Mag. 1858, ii. 93
  9. 1 2 William Bazely, "History of Prinknash Park" (1882 to 1883) 7 Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 267 at 301.
  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. ↑ (1899) 6 The Geological Magazine (New Series, Decade 4) 433
  12. ↑ Foster. Men-at-the-Bar. 2nd Ed. 1885. p 228.
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