Thomas Edwards (c.1775–1845) was a British legal writer.

Life

Edwards studied at

Trinity Hall, Cambridge Trinity Hall (formally The College or Hall of the Holy Trinity in the University of Cambridge) is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. It is the fifth-oldest surviving college of the university, having been founded in 1350 by ...

, where he proceeded

LL.B. Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

in 1800 and

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in 1805. He was also a fellow of Trinity Hall, and was admitted advocate at

Doctors' Commons Doctors' Commons, also called the College of Civilians, was a society of lawyers practising civil (as opposed to common) law in London, namely ecclesiastical and admiralty law. Like the Inns of Court of the common lawyers, the society had buildi ...

. Edwards was a magistrate for the county of Surrey, and took considerable interest in questions connected with the improvement of the people. He died at the Grove,

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, on 20 October 1845.Venn, ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. DNB gives his date of death as 29 October 1845.

Works

* ''Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the Judgments of Sir William Scott, Easter Term, 1808'', 1812; reprinted in America. * ''A Letter to the Lord-lieutenant of the County of Surrey on the Misconduct of Licensing Magistrates and the consequent Degradation of the Magistracy'', 1825. * ''Reasons for Refusing to Sign the Lay Address to the Archbishop of Canterbury'', 2nd edition, 1835 (concerning the ritual of the church)

References

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