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Thomas Camborne PAYNTER

Male 1794 - 1863  (68 years)


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  • Name Thomas Camborne PAYNTER 
    Birth 24 Jul 1794  Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 25 Dec 1794  St Buryan, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 20 Apr 1863  53 Thurloe Square, Brompton, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial 23 Apr 1863  Brompton Cemetery, Brompton, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I186  FHC006 - White Tree
    Last Modified 11 Mar 2019 

    Father James PAYNTER,   b. Abt 1747, St Buryan, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Aug 1800, Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth WETHERED   d. 26 Oct 1828, Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 1787 
    Family ID F674  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Anne MOODY,   b. Kingsdon, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 May 1876, 13 Upper Phillimore Gardens, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 21 Oct 1828 
    Children 
     1. Reginald Hearle PAYNTER,   b. 31 Oct 1831   d. 17 Feb 1875, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 43 years)
     2. Camborne Hastings PAYNTER,   b. 11 Feb 1836   d. 6 Oct 1854, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years)
    Family ID F266  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Mar 2021 

  • Notes 
    • Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874:
      Educated at Tiverton School; of Trinity College Cambridge, B.A. 1816; M.A. 1824. Barrister-at-Law 1823; Revising Barrister for Suffolk andNorfolk1833; Recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 18-- to 1841; Magistrate of Hammersmith and Wandsworth Police Court 17 Feb. to 15 Jan.1856;Magistrate of Westminster Police Court 1856, resigned 5 March 1863.
      References in:
      Diary of H.C. Robinson (1869).
      Gentleman's Magazine, xiv (1863).
      Law Times, xxxviii (1863).

      Alumni Cantabrigiensis:
      "Admitted pensioner (age 17) at Trinity, July 4, 1811. 2nd son of James and Elizabeth, daughter of James Wethered. Born July 24, 1794 atBoskennaHouse, Cornwall. School - Blundell's, Tiverton, Devon. Matriculated Lent, 1812; scholar, 1815; B.A. 1816; M.A. 1824. Admitted at Lincoln'sInn,April 23, 1817. Called to the Bar, Nov 23, 1824. Revising barrister for Norfolk and Suffolk, 1833. Recorder of falmouth, Helston andPenzance,1838-41. Police Magistrate at Kensington and Wandsworth, 1841-55; at Westminster, 1855-63. One of the founders of Redhill ReformationSchool.Married Oct 21, 1828, Anne, only daughter of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, and had issue. Author of "The practice of elections,instructionsfor sheriffs and other returning officers". Died April 20, 1863, at 53 Thurloe Square, London. Grandfather of Camborne H. Paynter.

      He wrote a book called "The Practice at Elections" in 1835, being plain instructions for the guidance of Sherriffs and other returning officersandtheir poll clerks. It was anonymously published at first in 1835 and then reprinted under his own name in 1837, 1847 and 1852. He also printedforprivate circulation a pamphlet entitled "Considerations on the Office and Duties a Metropolitan Police Magistrate".

      Thomas inherited Boskenna when his brother John died, unmarried, in 1847, however he and Ann did not live in Cornwall.

      He leased Lamorna quarry to Captain Owens and the stone quarried there was taken to London for building.