Thomas Emerson Headlam

Thomas Emerson Headlam (25 June 1813 – 3 December 1875) was an English barrister and politician, who became judge advocate-general.

He was the eldest son of John Headlam, Archdeacon of Richmond and rector of Wycliffe, Yorkshire, and his wife Maria Morley, daughter of the Rev.

[1][2] Headlam was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 3 May 1839, and practised as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer, going the northern circuit and attending the North Riding sessions.

After a contest he was elected a Member of Parliament in the Liberal interest for Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 30 July 1847, and sat for that town until the dissolution in 1874.

[1] After his retirement from parliamentary life, Headlam's health gradually failed, and on his way to winter in a southerly climate, he died at Calais on 3 December 1875.