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- 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.
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