George Tomlinson (bishop)

George Tomlinson (12 March 1794 – 6 February 1863)[2] was an English cleric, the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar from 1842 to 1863.

The Right Reverend

George Tomlinson
Bishop of Gibraltar
ChurchChurch of England
DioceseGibraltar
In office1842–1863
Personal details
Born12 March 1794
Lancashire, England[1]
Died6 February 1863(1863-02-06) (aged 68)
Gibraltar Palace, Gibraltar

Biography
Auberge d'Aragon in Valletta, Malta, which was leased to Tomlinson in the 1840s under the name Gibraltar House

Tomlinson was born in Lancashire, the son of John Tomlinson.[3] He was first educated at St Saviour's Grammar School, Southwark,[4] and entered St John's College, Cambridge in 1818, matriculating in 1819. He graduated B.A. in 1823, M.A. in 1826, and D.D. in 1842.[5] He was founder of the Cambridge Apostles.[4]

Ordained in 1822, Tomlinson became chaplain to William Howley, the Bishop of London, and was employed as a tutor by Sir Robert Peel.[5] In 1825 he became secretary to the City of London Infant School Society, a High Church alternative around Howley, Peel and Charles James Blomfield to the Infant School Society of Samuel Wilderspin.[6]

From 1831 to 1842 Tomlinson was secretary to the SPCK.[5] There he wrote for the Saturday Magazine, and founded the Clergy List and Ecclesiastical Gazette. In 1840 he undertook an ecumenical mission in the Levant, and wrote a report on it.[7]

Tomlinson's consecration

On 24 August 1842, Tomlinson was consecrated a bishop at Westminster Abbey. He arrived in Gibraltar in 1842 with Robert Thomas Wilson, the new governor, on HMS Warspite.[8] He died there on 9 February 1863, at age 62.[5]

Family

Tomlinson married twice. His first wife was Louisa, daughter of Gen. Sir Patrick Stuart; they were married in 1848, and she died in 1850.[9] His second wife was Eleanor Jane, daughter of Colonel Charles Mackenzie Fraser, 10th Laird of Inverallochy and 6th of Castle Fraser; they were married in 1855.[1]

References
  1. Baker, Thomas (1869). History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge. University Press. p. 975. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  2. "The Mediterranean: From Our Own Correspondent". The Morning Post. London, England. 20 February 1863. p. 5. Retrieved 13 August 2014 – via The British Newspaper Archive.
  3. 1855 marriage of George Tomlinson, son of John Tomlinson, and Eleanor Jane Fraser, daughter of Charles Fraser; England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973
  4. Lubenow, W. C. (1999). The Cambridge Apostles 1820–1914. Cambridge University Press. p. 27.
  5. "Tomlinson, George (TMLN818G)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  6. Phillip MacCann; Francis A. Young (1982). Samuel Wilderspin and the infant school movement. Croom Helm, Limited. pp. 74–5. ISBN 978-0-7099-2903-1. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  7. Peter Allen (10 June 2010). The Cambridge Apostles: The Early Years. Cambridge University Press. p. 23. ISBN 978-0-521-14254-0. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  8. E.G. Archer (2006). Gibraltar Identity and Empire. Psychology Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-415-34796-9. Retrieved 2 April 2013.
  9. "Obituary: Gen. The Hon. Sir P. Stuart". The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jeffries: 305. 1855. Retrieved 6 August 2017.


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