Henry Roscoe (legal writer)

Henry Roscoe (17 April 1800 – 25 March 1836) was an English barrister, legal writer, and biographer.

The youngest son of William Roscoe, he was born at Allerton Hall, near Liverpool, on 17 April 1800.

He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in February 1826, and then practised in the northern circuit and at the Liverpool and Chester sessions.

He also brought out an edition of Roger North's Lives (1826, 3 vols), and was the joint editor of Price's Exchequer Reports for 1834–35.

Roscoe's widow, who died in April 1885, aged 86, published in 1868 Vittoria Colonna: her Life and Times about the Italian noblewoman and poet.