- "Colonel" George Tomline
George Tomline, "sobriquet" "Colonel" George Tomline, (
3 March 1813 -25 August 1889 ) was an Englishpolitician ,Member of Parliament for various constituencies. He was the son ofWilliam Edward Tomline and grandson ofGeorge 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 anobservatory atOrwell Park . [Goward (2006)]His heir was the Rt Hon. Captain
Ernest George Pretyman MP, at various times Parliamentary Under-Secretary to theBoard of Trade , andCivil 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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