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Author: Lace, Thomas Griffiths

Biography:

LACE, Thomas Griffiths (1789-1827: ancestry.co.uk)

He was baptised on 15 June 1789 at St. Paul’s Liverpool, the eldest son of Joshua Lace (1761-1841), attorney, solicitor and notary, and Margaret Griffiths (1755-1830), who had married at Chester in 1786. His father was a sometime partner of William Roscoe (q.v.) and practised law for over sixty years in the city. He also established the Liverpool Law Library Society in 1827. At his death in 1841 several tributes called him the father of the legal profession in Liverpool. Nothing is known of Thomas Griffiths’ education but the family was affluent and well-connected so it’s unlikely to have been elementary. He does not appear to have married. In 1825 he was listed as a merchant at 6 Camden Street and in 1827 at 7 King Street, Soho, Liverpool. He died at Liverpool on 8 Aug. 1827, aged 38, and was buried at Holy Trinity three days later. The attribution to him of Ode on the Present State of Europe (1811) by “T. G. Lace”--the only known publication of that author--is circumstantial but the work was printed by M. Galway in Liverpool and Thomas Griffiths Lace is the most obvious candidate. (ancestry.co.uk 5 Aug. 2023; findmypast.co.uk 5 Aug. 2023; Gore’s Liverpool Directory [1825], 168, [1827], 195; Liverpool Mercury 12 July 1811, 10 Aug. 1827; Johnson, item 519) AA

 

Other Names:

  • T. G. Lace
 

Books written (1):

London: Cadell and Davies, 1811