Thomas Barnardiston

Thomas Barnardiston (died 1752) was an English barrister and legal reporter, famed for the inaccuracy of his law reports. Life Barnardiston the eldest child of Thomas Barnardiston (born 1677), of Wyverstone and Bury St Edmunds, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet., who married on 28 June 1705. His sister Elizabeth married John Ewer, and his sister Mary married Edward Goate. After Bury school, he was admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1722, and to the Middle Temple in 1723. Barnardiston was created a serjeant-at-law on 3 June 1735. He died on 14 October 1752, and was buried on the 20th at Chelsea, London. Works His reports in Chancery were published in 1740, 1741, and 1742; and his Reports of Cases adjudged in the King's Bench, from 12 Geo. I to 7 Geo. II, were published in two volumes in 1744. The Chancery reports are important for containing the decisions of Lord Hardwicke.