Edward Thurlow, Lord Thurlow

Edward Hovell-Thurlow, 2nd Baron Thurlow (1781–1829), was the 2nd Baron Thurlow, known also as a poet. In 1814 he assumed by royal licence the additional surname of Hovell, in commemoration of his ancestor Sir Richard Hovell.

He was the eldest son of Thomas Thurlow, the bishop of Durham, and Anne, daughter of William Bere of Lymington, Hampshire; and nephew of Lord Chancellor Thurlow. Born in the Temple, London, on 10 June 1781, he was educated at Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he matriculated on 17 May 1798, and was created M.A. on 16 July 1801.

On the death of his uncle the 1st Baron, he succeeded to the barony of Thurlow, of Thurlow in Suffolk, on 12 September 1806; but took his seat in the House of Lords only on 29 November 1810. In commemoration of the descent of his grandmother from Richard Hovell, esquire of the body to Henry V, he prefixed to Thurlow the additional surname Hovell by royal licence, dated 8 July 1814.