"Colonel" George Tomline

"Colonel" George Tomline

George Tomline, "sobriquet" "Colonel" George Tomline, (3 March 1813 - 25 August 1889) was an English politician, Member of Parliament for various constituencies. He was the son of William Edward Tomline and grandson of George Pretyman Tomline.

He was Member of Parliament for: [Gooding (2003)]
*Sudbury, (1840-1841);
*Shrewsbury, (1851-1847) and (1852-1868);
*Great Grimsby, (1868-1874).

He was a keen amateur astronomer who built an observatory at Orwell Park. [Goward (2006)]

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. [Allen 2005, 98.]

References

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.
* cite book | title=Orwell Park | author=Bence-Jones, G. | year=1995 | publisher=Electric Ink Ltd
* cite web | author=Burke, Sir Bernard | year=1863 | location=London | publisher=Harrison | title=A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland | pages="p."1518 | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=Ni4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA21-PA1518&lpg=RA21-PA1518&dq=william+edward+tomline&source=web&ots=n3r9VBxswI&sig=zKSwBTGqdddjOzn3eRHuAUrEciQ | accessdate=2007-08-22
* cite web | title=George Tomline & Relatives | author=Gooding, R. | year=2003 | accessdate=2007-08-22 | url=http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~ipswich/Observatory/Tomline.htm | work=Orwell Astronomical Society
* cite web | title=Founding of Orwell Park Observatory | author=Goward, K. J. | year=2006 | accessdate=2007-08-22 | url=http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~ipswich/Observatory/Founding.htm | work=Orwell Astronomical Society
*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


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