David Jardine (1794–1860) was an English barrister and magistrate, known as a historical and legal writer.
Life
Born at Pickwick, near Bath, Somerset, he was son of David B. Jardine (1766–1797), Unitarian minister at Bath from 1790, by his wife, a daughter of George Webster of Hampstead. The father died on 10 March 1797, and John Prior Estlin of Bristol edited, with a memoir, two volumes of his sermons.[1]
He died at the Heath, Weybridge, Surrey, on 13 September 1860; his wife, Sarah, died three weeks later.[1]
Works
With fellow lawyer Edgar Taylor, Jardine made the anonymous translations in German Popular Stories (1823), the first English translation of Grimms' Fairy Tales.[3]
In 1828 Jardine published a General Index to Thomas Bayly Howell's Collection of State Trials. In 1840 and 1841 he communicated to the Society of Antiquaries of London two papers of Remarks upon the Letters of Thomas Winter and the Lord Mounteagle, lately discovered by J. Bruce. … Also upon the Evidence of Lord Mounteagle's implication in the Gunpowder Treason.[4] These formed the materials for A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, London, 1857.[1]