George Tomline, referred to as Colonel Tomline, was an English politician who served as Member of Parliament for various constituencies.
Background
He was the son of William Edward Tomline and grandson of George Pretyman Tomline. 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.
Education
Tomline was educated at Eton College, following which he made a Grand Tour in Europe mostly travelling in a gig.
Career
He was Colonel of the Royal North Lincolnshire Militia. 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. In 1881 he unsuccessfully contested a by-election in North Lincolnshire as a Liberal.
He was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1852. He was a keen amateur astronomer who built an observatory at 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.
After a funeral service at Street Martin"s in the Fields on 29 August, his body was cremated at Woking Crematorium and his ashes sent to London. His heir, to whom his estates devolved, was the Rt Honorary Captain Ernest George Pretyman Member of Parliament, at various times Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Civil Lord of the Admiralty.
Membership
13th United Kingdom Parliament. 14th United Kingdom Parliament. 16th United Kingdom Parliament.
17th United Kingdom Parliament.
18th United Kingdom Parliament. 19th United Kingdom Parliament.
20th United Kingdom Parliament]
He was Member of Parliament for:.