Thomas Bayly Howell FRS (6 September 1767 – 13 April 1815) was an English lawyer and writer who edited and lent his name to ''Howell's State Trials''.

Life

Thomas Bayly Howell was born in

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. His family returned to England in 1770 to settle at

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near

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. Howell studied at Christ Church, Oxford but did not graduate, instead moving on to Lincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1790.Goodwin (2004) In 1808,

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asked Howell to edit a new edition of the ''State Trials'', a work aspiring to aggregate all the important cases on

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in England. Former compilations of the subject were published by

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and

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over the previous century. Howell worked on the project from 1809 to 1814, his son, Thomas Jones Howell taking over from him. A modern edition of the ''State Trials'' was edited by Donald Thomas and published in two volumes in 1972.

Honours

*Fellow of the

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, (1804) *Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries

References

Bibliography

*Baildon, W. P. (ed.) (1896) ''The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: Admissions'', 1, 502 *Baildon, W. P. (ed.) (1902) ''The Records of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn: The Black Books'', 4, 240, 249 *Burke, J. (1833–38) ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'', 4 vols * *, 2 vols *Wallace, J. W. (1882) ''The Reporters'', 4th ed., 64–9
General Index to the Collection of State Trials compiled by Howell and Howell
(1828), by David Jardine * Howell's ''Complete Collection of State Trials, from the Earliest Period to the Year 1783'': *
1809 edition, vol I: 1163–16001816 edition, vol I: 1163–1600
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1809 edition, vol II: 1603–1627
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1809 edition, vol III: 1627–16401816 edition, vol III: 1627–1640
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1809 edition, vol IV: 1640–16491816 edition, vol IV: 1640–1649
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1810 edition, vol V: 1650–16611816 edition, vol V: 1650–1661
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1810 edition, vol VI: 1661–16781816 edition, vol VI: 1661–1678
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1810 edition, vol VII: 1678–16801816 edition, vol VII: 1678–1680
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1810 edition, vol VIII: 1680–16821816 edition, vol VIII: 1680–1682
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1811 edition, vol IX: 1682–16841816 edition, vol IX: 1682–1684
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1811 edition, vol X: 1680–16851816 edition, vol X: 1684–1685
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1811 edition, vol XI: 1680–16881816 edition, vol XI: 1680–1688
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1812 edition, vol XII: 1687–16961816 edition, vol XII: 1687–1696
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1812 edition, vol XIII: 1696–16971816 edition, vol XIII: 1696–1700
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1812 edition, vol XIV: 1700–1708
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1812 edition, vol XV: 1710–17191816 edition, vol XV: 1710-1719
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1812 edition, vol XVI: 1722–1725
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1816 edition, vol XVII: 1726–1743
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1813 edition, vol XVIII: 1743–17531816 edition, vol XVIII: 1744–1753
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1816 edition, vol XIX: 1753–1770
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1816 edition, vol XX: 1772–1777
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1814 edition, vol XXI: 1778–17841816 edition, vol XXI: 1778–1779
* ''Continued from the Year 1783 to the Present Time'': *
1817 edition, vol XXII: 1783–1794
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1817 edition, vol XXIII: 1793–1794
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1818 edition, vol XXIV: 1794
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1818 edition, vol XXV: 1794–1796
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1819 edition, vol XXVI: 1796–1798
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1820 edition, vol XXVII: 1798–1800
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1820 edition, vol XXVIII: 1802–1803
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1821 edition, vol XXIX: 1804–1806
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1823 edition, vol XXXI: 1809–1813
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1826 edition, vol XXXIII: 1817–1820

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