Thomas Bayley Howell

Absentee slave-owner, son of John Howell (q.v.). Lawyer, married in 1790 Lucy Ann, the daughter of Robert Long (1729-), through whom he also became a joint owner of Longville estate in Clarendon, Jamaica. He has an entry in the ODNB that says he was born in Jamaica but makes no reference to his slave-owning. In 1798 he mortgaged his share in Longville for £5000 to Protheroes & Claxton.

1. When in 1808 William Cobbett projected a new edition of the State Trials, he secured Howell as editor. Howell carried the work from the first volume (1809) to the twenty-first (1814), taking over from Cobbett as proprietor in 1811. The remaining twelve volumes were edited by his son, Thomas Jones Howell. Together they succeeded in arranging and co-ordinating the untidy mass of information left by previous editors, thus providing a collection of all the important criminal and constitutional cases with a bearing on public law. Howell was made a fellow of the Royal Society in 1804 and was also a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He died at Prinknash Park, on 13 April 1815.

John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (4 vols., London, Henry Colburn, 1835-1838), vol. 2 pp. 166-167, Long of Hampton Lodge.

1. Goodwin, Gordon. "Howell, Thomas Bayly (1767–1815), legal writer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 11 Apr. 2018. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-13980.