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English judge, Recorder of London, ancient and bencher of Gray's Inn, and Baron of Exchequer

Sir Salathiel Lovell (1631/2–1713) was an English judge, Recorder of London, an ancient and bencher of Gray's Inn, and a Baron of the Exchequer.

Origins and education

Lovell was the son of Benjamin Lovell, rector of Lapworth, Warwickshire, and brother of Robert Lovell, and was born in 1631 or 1632. Aside from his religious calling, his father was a parliamentarian in the English Civil War, serving for a time under Colonel William Purefoy, one of the regicides of King Charles I of England.^[1]

Salathiel Lovell was accepted into Gray's Inn to read for the Bar in 1648.

He worked as a clerk in Buckinghamshire, and as one of the parish trustees of parish lands in Lapworth,^[1] before being called to the bar in November 1656.^[2]

Career

He had moved to Northampton by 1661, as evidenced by baptism records for a son, also called Salathiel;