His family returned to England in 1770 to settle at Prinknash Park near Gloucester.
Howell studied at Christ Church, Oxford but did not graduate, instead moving on to Lincoln's Inn and being called to the bar in 1790.
[1] In 1808, William Cobbett asked Howell to edit a new edition of the State Trials, a work aspiring to aggregate all the important cases on public law in England.
Former compilations of the subject were published by Thomas Salmon, Sollom Emlyn and Francis Hargrave over the previous century.
[2] Media related to Thomas Bayly Howell at Wikimedia Commons