William Thomas Shave Daniel

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. He was recorder of Ipswich from May 1842 to November 1848. He was a county court judge on circuit No. 11 from March 1867 to 12 April 1884. He was a 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.