George Tomline (politician)
George Tomline (3 March 1813 – 25 August 1889), referred to as Colonel Tomline, was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for various constituencies. He was the son of William Edward Tomline and grandson of George Pretyman Tomline.
Life
Tomline was educated at Eton College, following which he made a Grand Tour in Europe mostly travelling in a gig.[1]
He succeeded to his father's estates, at Riby Grove, Lincolnshire, and Orwell Park, Suffolk, in 1836, and he also inherited through his mother, Frances (nee Amler or Ambler), Ford Hall near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.[2] He was Colonel of the Royal North Lincolnshire Militia.[3]
He was Member of Parliament for:[4]
- Sudbury, (1840–1841 - as Conservative);
- Shrewsbury, (1841–1847 - as Conservative, alongside Benjamin Disraeli) and (1852–1868 - as Liberal);
- Great Grimsby, (1868–1874, as Liberal).
In parliament he was well known as an advocate of bi-metallism in currency and for posting silver bars to successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, demanding the Royal Mint had a duty to convert them into coinage.[1][3]
In 1881 he unsuccessfully contested a by-election in North Lincolnshire as a Liberal.
He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1852.[5]
He was a keen amateur astronomer who built an observatory at Orwell Park.[6][7][8] He was founder and chairman of the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company which built the Felixstowe Branch Line and established the Port of Felixstowe.[9] Tomline Road in Ipswich which runs parallel to the railway line is named after him.
He died, unmarried, from a stroke after a long illness at his London home, Number 1 Carlton House Terrace in August 1889, aged 76.[10] After a funeral service at St Martin's in the Fields on 29 August, his body was cremated at Woking Crematorium and his ashes sent to London.[1]
His heir, to whom his estates devolved, was the Rt Hon. Captain Ernest George Pretyman MP, at various times Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Civil Lord of the Admiralty.[11]
References
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- ↑ Not to be confused with Fordhall in same county but near Market Drayton.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, Series 4, Volume XII (1929-30). Article Shrewsbury Members of Parliament by Henry T. Weyman.
- ↑ Gooding (2003)
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21287. p. 289. 3 February 1852. Retrieved 29 September 2008.
- ↑ Goward (2006)
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- ↑ Allen 2005, 98.
Bibliography
- Allen, David, 'Victorian Suffolk's Great Eccentric: Colonel George Tomline 1813-1889', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History 41, Part 1 (2005), 79-102.
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- Gowing, R. Shave (1875) "George Tomline", in Public Men of Ipswich and East Suffolk Ipswich:Scopes and London:Grant & Co, 103-109.
Obituaries
- Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal, 28 August 1889
- Lincolnshire Chronicle, 30 August 1889
- Ipswich Journal, 30 August 1889
- Shrewsbury Chronicle, 30 August 1889
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Tomline
| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Sudbury 1840–1841 With: Joseph Bailey |
Succeeded by Frederick Meynell Villiers David Sombre |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1841 – 1847 With: Benjamin Disraeli |
Succeeded by Robert Aglionby Slaney Edward Holmes Baldock |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1852 – 1868 With: Edward Holmes Baldock to 1857 Robert Aglionby Slaney 1857–1862 Henry Robertson 1862–1865 William James Clement from 1865 |
Succeeded by James Figgins William James Clement |
| Preceded by | Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 1868 – 1874 |
Succeeded by John Chapman |
| Honorary titles | ||
| Preceded by | High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1852 |
Succeeded by Joseph Livesey |
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