Thomas Emerson Headlam

Thomas Emerson Headlam

Thomas Emerson Headlam MP (1813–1875), barrister and politician, judge advocate-general.

Headlam, eldest son of John Headlam, Archdeacon of Richmond and rector of Wycliffe, Yorkshire, who was buried there on 9 May 1853, aged 85, by Maria, daughter of the Rev. Thomas W. Morley of Clapham, was born at Wycliffe rectory, and baptised on 25 June 1813. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became sixteenth wrangler and B.A. 1836, and M.A. 1839.

He 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. During his political career he carried through the House of Commons the Trustee Act, 5 Aug. 1850. In 1851 he was appointed a Q.C., in the same year a bencher of his inn, in 1866 reader, and in 1867 treasurer. He was a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant for the North Riding of Yorkshire and for Northumberland, and in 1854 became chancellor of the dioceses of Ripon and of Durham. He was judge advocate-general from June 1859 till July 1866, and on 18 June in the former year was gazetted a privy councillor.

After his retirement from parliamentary life his health gradually failed, and on his way to winter in a southerly climate, he died at Calais on 3 Dec. 1875. He married at Richmond, Yorkshire, on 1 Aug. 1854, Ellen Percival, eldest daughter of Thomas Van Straubenzee, major in the royal artillery.

Headlam was the author or editor of:
# ‘The Practice of the High Court of Chancery, by E. R. Daniell,’ 2nd edition with additions, 1845; 3rd edition, 1857.
# ‘A Speech on Limited Liability in Joint-Stock Banks,’ 1849.
# ‘The Trustee Act, 13 and 14 Vict. c. 60,’ 1850; 2nd edition, 1852; 3rd edition, 1855.
# ‘Pleadings and Practice of the High Court of Chancery, by E. R. Daniell,’ 2nd edition, 1851.
# ‘A Supplement to Daniell's Chancery Practice,’ 1851.
# ‘The New Chancery Acts, 15 and 16 Vict. c. 80, 86, and 87,’ 1853.

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