Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow

Born in the Temple, London, on 10 June 1781, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 17 May 1798, and was created M.A.

In commemoration of the descent of his grandmother from Richard Hovell, esquire of the body to Henry V, he prefixed to Thurlow the additional surname Hovell by royal licence, dated 8 July 1814.

[1] Thurlow had been appointed on 30 December 1785 one of the principal registrars of the diocese of Lincoln, and in 1788 clerk of the custodies of idiots and lunatics.

[1] Thurlow edited for private circulation, London, 1810, Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy; with it were some original sonnets.

Other works were:[1] He contributed to the Gentleman's Magazine, in which appeared (April 1813) his Lines on Rogers's Epistle to a Friend, parodied by Lord Byron.