Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd SL (26 May 1795 – 13 March 1854) was an English judge, Radical politician[1][2][3] and author.

Early in 1821, he joined the Oxford circuit, having been Called to the Bar at Middle Temple earlier in the year.

Fourteen years later, he was created a serjeant-at-law and led the court with William Fry Channell until 1846, when serjeants lost their monopoly of audience.

His legal writings on literary matters are excellent expositions, animated by a lucid and telling, if not highly polished, style.

Among the best of these are his article On the Principle of Advocacy in the Practice of the Bar (in the Law Magazine, January 1846); his Proposed New Law of Copyright of the Highest Importance to Authors (1838); Three Speeches delivered in the House of Commons in Favour of an Extension of Copyright (1840); and Speech for the Defendant in the Prosecution, the Queen v. Moxon, for the Publication of Shelley's Poetical Works (1841), a celebrated defence of Edward Moxon.

[6] Talfourd died in 1854 in Stafford, after an apoplectic seizure in court while addressing the jury from his judge's seat[7] at the town's Shire Hall, where he is commemorated by a bust, sculpted by John Graham Lough.