Thomas James Arnold (1804? – 19 May 1877) was an English

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Biography

Arnold was a barrister and man of letters, was the son of Stephen James Arnold, and was born about 1804. He was

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in 1829, was appointed magistrate at the Worship Street police-court in 1847, and transferred to the

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court in 1851. He died, still holding this appointment, on 19 May 1877, being then senior London police magistrate, and is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.

Works

Arnold wrote legal manuals on the law of municipal corporations, the

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, and other subjects. As a translator he is known by his versions of Goethe's '' Reineke Fuchs'' (1860), of '' Faust'' (1877), and of ''

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'' (1869). The translation of ''Reineke Fuchs'' is a very creditable work; that of 'Faust' is respectable, but inferior to some later versions, and, having been published in

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form as an accompaniment to a volume of illustrations, is but little known. The translator of ''Anacreon'' has only the alternative of baldness or infidelity, and Mr. Arnold chose the former. He also translated Schiller's ''

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'', and wrote an able review of the controversy respecting Mr. Collier's annotated

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folio in '' Fraser's Magazine'' for January 1860. This was to have been continued, but the sequel never appeared. He was a man of great culture and accomplishments, an intimate friend of Shelley's friend, Thomas Love Peacock, and the son-in-law of Shelley's biographer,

Thomas Jefferson Hogg Thomas Jefferson Hogg (24 May 1792 – 27 August 1862) was a British barrister and writer best known for his friendship with the Romantic poetry, Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. Hogg was raised in County Durham, but spent most of hi ...

.Annual Register, 1877

References

DNB references

These references are found in the DNB article referred to above.

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1804 births 1877 deaths Year of birth uncertain 19th-century English people English barristers 19th-century British translators English translators Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery Translators of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {{England-law-bio-stub