The son of the abolitionist of the same name; educated at Bury St. Edmunds, Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Middle Temple, he was a pleader on the northern circuit and a London Police magistrate.

REFERENCES TO Thomas Clarkson:

Mary and Charles Lamb to Catherine Clarkson [10 December 1808] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Mary Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, 13 November 1810 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)

Charles Lamb to Anne Dorothea Bridget Benson Montagu, [Summer 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905)