William Thomas Shave Daniel

William Thomas Shave Daniel, QC (1806–1891) was vice-chairman of the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting.[1]

Life

He was the eldest son of William Daniel, of Stapenhill, then part of Derbyshire. W T S Daniel was born on 17 March 1806.[2] He was educated at Repton School.[3] On 12 September 1831, he married Harriet, eldest daughter of John Mayou, Esq., of Coleshill. She died in 1838. On 11 April 1840, he married Sarah, only daughter of Arthur William Trollope, headmaster of Christ's Hospital.[2]

Career

W T S Daniel became a student of Lincoln's Inn on 27 January 1825, was called to the bar on 8 February 1830, became Queen's Counsel on 17 July 1851, and was called to the bench on 3 November 1851.[2] He was recorder of Ipswich from May 1842 to November 1848.[4] He was a county court judge, on circuit No. 11, from March 1867 to 12 April 1884. He was joint judge at Leeds for the trial of equity and bankruptcy cases in 1875. He was vice-chairman (and originator) of the system of the law reports of the Council of Law Reporting from 1865 to 1870, and a member of the Law Digest Commission in 1868. He contested Tamworth in 1859 and 1865.[2]

Death

He died at 51 The Parade, Leamington on 9 June 1891.[5]

Works

He is the author of The History and Origin of the Law Reports (1884).[1][6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b Polden, Patrick. "Daniel, William Thomas Shave". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52658. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d  Foster, Joseph (1885). "Daniel, William Thomas Shave" . Men-at-the-Bar  (second ed.). London: Hazell, Watson, and Viney.
  3. ^ Hipkins (ed). The Repton School Register, 1620-1894. 1895. pp 68 & 69.
  4. ^ Robert Henry Mair (ed). "W.T.S. Daniel". Debrett's Illustrated House of Commons, and the Judicial Bench 1883. Dean & Son. Fleet Street, London. p 392.
  5. ^ Frederic Boase. "Daniel, William Thomas Shave". Modern English Biography. 1912. vol 5. col 16.
  6. ^ Digitised copies of The History and Origin of the Law Reports: [1] [2].
  7. ^ For reviews of this book, see Nathaniel Lindley, "The History of the Law Reports" (1885) 1 Law Quarterly Review 137 (April 1885); "Reviews" (1885) 4 The Law Magazine and Review 336 (No 256: May 1885); "Pretension and Fact" (1884) 19 The Law Journal 772 (27 December 1884); "Pretension and Fact" (1885) 19 The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal 13 (10 January 1885); "Reviews" (1885) 29 The Journal of Jurisprudence 147; "Reviews" (1885) 7 The Law Students' Journal 14 (1 January 1885); "Books about Law" (1885) 59 The Saturday Review 831 (20 June 1885); "Notices of Books", The Bookseller, 4 February 1885, p 113; "History of the Law Reports" (1885) 31 The Literary World 56 (16 January 1885); "Our Library Table", The Athenaeum, No 2987: 24 January 1885, p 119; and "Current Literature" (1885) 27 The Academy 185 (No 671: 14 March 1885). For further commentary on this book, see Winfield, Chief Sources of English Legal History, p 194.

Further reading

  • Pen and Ink Sketches in Chancery. 1867. No 1. Sketch III. pp 6 & 7.
  • "Legal Obituary" (1891) 91 The Law Times 148 (No 2516: 20 June 1891)
  • "Obituary" in "Legal News"  (1891) 35 The Solicitors' Journal 632 (18 July 1891)
  • "Current Topics" (1891) 35 The Solicitors' Journal 546 (13 June 1891)
  • "Death of Mr. Daniel, Late County Court Judge". Leeds Mercury. 12 June 1891. p 8.
  • "The Retirement of Mr. W.T.S. Daniel Q.C." (1884) 76 The Law Times 461 (26 April 1884)
  • "The New Leeds County Court Justices" 19 The Solicitors' Journal 396 (27 March 1875)
  • "Appointments & Promotions" (1867) 2 The Law Journal 158 (22 March 1867)
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