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.

He was Member of Parliament for:^[1]

• Sudbury, (1840-1841);
• Shrewsbury, (1841-1847) and (1852-1868);
• Great Grimsby, (1868-1874).

He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1852.^[2]

He was a keen amateur astronomer who built an observatory at Orwell Park.^[3] He was founder and chairman of the Felixstowe Railway and Pier Company which built the Felixstowe Branch Line and established the Port of Felixstowe.^[4] Tomline Road in Ipswich which runs parallel to the railway line is named after him.

His heir 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.^[5]

References

1. ^ Gooding (2003)
2. ^ London Gazette: no. 21287. p. 289. 3 February 1852. Retrieved 2008-09-29.
3. ^ Goward (2006)
4. ^ "History of the Port". http://www.portoffelixstowe.co.uk/PUBLICATIONS/JOURNAL/frmhistory.aspx. Retrieved 2009-05-04. 
5. ^ 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.
• Bence-Jones, G. (1995). Orwell Park. Electric Ink Ltd. 
• Burke, Sir Bernard (1863). "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland". London: Harrison. pp. p.1518. http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA21-PA1518&lpg=RA21-PA1518&dq=william+edward+tomline&source=web&ots=n3r9VBxswI&sig=zKSwBTGqdddjOzn3eRHuAUrEciQ. Retrieved 2007-08-22. 
• Gooding, R. (2003). "George Tomline & Relatives". Orwell Astronomical Society. http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~ipswich/Observatory/Tomline.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-22. ^{[dead link]}
• Goward, K. J. (2006). "Founding of Orwell Park Observatory". Orwell Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2007-06-30. http://web.archive.org/web/20070630001239/http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~ipswich/Observatory/Founding.htm. Retrieved 2007-08-22. 
• Gowing, R. Shave (1875) "George Tomline", in Public Men of Ipswich and East Suffolk Ipswich:Scopes and London:Grant & Co, 103-109.

Obituaries

• Lincolnshire Chronicle, 30 August 1889
• Ipswich Journal, 30 August 1889

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by George Tomline

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Joseph Bailey Sir John Benn Walsh	Member of Parliament for Sudbury 1840 – 1841 With: Joseph Bailey	Succeeded by Frederick Meynell Villiers David Sombre
Preceded by Robert Aglionby Slaney Richard Jenkins	Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury 1841 – 1847 With: Benjamin Disraeli	Succeeded by Robert Aglionby Slaney Edward Holmes Baldock
Preceded by Robert Aglionby Slaney Edward Holmes Baldock	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 John Fildes	Member of Parliament for Great Grimsby 1868 – 1874	Succeeded by John Chapman
Honorary titles
Preceded by Sir Charles Anderson	High Sheriff of Lincolnshire 1852	Succeeded by Joseph Livesey

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Name	Tomline, George
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Date of birth	1813-03-03
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Date of death	1889-08-25
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