Thomas Edlyne Tomlins (bapt.
Tomlins was born in London, the son of Alfred Tomlins, a clerk in the Irish exchequer office, Paradise Row, Lambeth, and his wife Elizabeth.
He was the nephew of Sir Thomas Edlyne Tomlins.
He entered St. Paul's School, London on 6 February 1811, and was admitted to practice in London as an attorney in the Michaelmas term of 1827.
[2][3] Tomlins was the author of:[1] He also edited Sir Thomas Littleton's Treatise of Tenures (1841); revised Alexander Fraser Tytler's Elements of General History (1844); translated the Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds of Jocelin of Brakelond (1844) for the Popular Library of Modern Authors;[4] and contributed to the Shakespeare Society A New Document regarding the Authority of the Master of the Revels which had been discovered on the patent roll (Shakespeare Society Papers, 1847, iii.