George Tomlinson (12 March 1794 – 6 February 1863) was an English cleric, the

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Bishop of Gibraltar from 1842 to 1863.

Biography

Tomlinson was born in

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, the son of Eleanor Jane Fraser and John Tomlinson. He was first educated at St Saviour's Grammar School,

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, and entered

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, in 1818, matriculating in 1819. He graduated B.A. in 1823, M.A. in 1826, and D.D. in 1842. He was founder of the Cambridge Apostles. Ordained in 1822, Tomlinson became chaplain to

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, the

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, and was employed as a tutor by Sir Robert Peel. In 1825 he became secretary to the City of London Infant School Society, a

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alternative around Howley, Peel and Charles James Blomfield to the Infant School Society of Samuel Wilderspin. From 1831 to 1842, Tomlinson was secretary to the SPCK. 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. On 24 August 1842, Tomlinson was

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a bishop at

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. He arrived in

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in 1842 with Robert Wilson, the new governor, on . He died there on 9 February 1863, aged 68.

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. 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.

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Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 19th-century Anglican bishops of Gibraltar People educated at St Saviour's Grammar School 1794 births 1863 deaths {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub