James Tomkinson

James Tomkinson MP, circa 1910

James Tomkinson PC (1840 – 10 Apr 1910)^[1] was an English landowner and Liberal politician.

Life

Tomkinson at the House of Commons Steeplechase in a photograph taken shortly before his death from a fall.

Born in 1840, Tomkinson lived at Willington Hall, Chester, He was the son of Waterloo veteran Lieutenant-general William Tomkinson and Susan, daughter of Thomas Tarleton of Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire.^[2]

He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1887^[3] and in 1895, unsuccessfully contested Nuneaton for the Liberals^[4] but at the 1900 general election he was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Crewe, holding the seat until his death in April 1910.^[5] He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cheshire in 1901,^[6] became Second Church Estates Commissioner in 1907, and member of the Privy Council in November 1909.^[7][8][9]

In 1871 Tomkinson married Emily Frances Palmer, a daughter of Sir George Palmer, 3rd Baronet, by his marriage to Emily Elizabeth Holford.^[7]

Tomkinson died on 10 April 1910 from injuries sustained in a fall while participating in the House of Commons Steeplechase.^[10]

Descendants

• Charles William Tomkinson (1877–1939)^[7]
• James Edward Tomkinson, later Palmer-Tomkinson (1879–1961)^[7]

• James Algernon Palmer-Tomkinson (1915-1952)

• Charles Palmer-Tomkinson (born 1940)

• James Palmer-Tomkinson
• Santa Palmer-Tomkinson, now Santa Montefiore (born 1970)
• Tara Palmer-Tomkinson (born 1971)

• Christopher Palmer-Tomkinson (born 1942)
• Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson (born 1943)

• Jane Lindsay Tomkinson, who in 1935 married Herbert Ingram, later Sir Herbert Ingram (1912–1980)^[11]
• Henry Archdale Tomkinson (1881–1937) (Brigadier Tomkinson), manager of the royal Racing and Breeding Studs^[12]

References

1. "House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6)". Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
2. Tomkinson, William (1894). Tomkinson, James, ed. The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaign, 1809-1815. S. Sonnenschein & Company. p. vi.
3. The London Gazette: no. 25680. p. 1222. 8 March 1887. Retrieved 2008-02-11.
4. Tomkinson of Willington Hall collection at catalogue details from The National Archives for records held by the Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies Service, accessed 29 August 2008
5. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1974]. British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 231 His agent was Thomas Darling, grandfather of George Darling, later Labour-Coop MP for Sheffield Hillsborough. ISBN 0-900178-27-2. line feed character in |page= at position 4 (help)
6. The London Gazette: no. 27392. p. 9176. 31 December 1901.
7. Rt. Hon. James Tomkinson at thepeerage.com, accessed 29 August 2008
8. The London Gazette: no. 28006. p. 2002. 22 March 1907. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
9. The London Gazette: no. 28311. p. 8661. 23 November 1909. Retrieved 2008-09-01.
10. Staff (May 1910). "The late Mr. James Tomkinson, M.P.". Baily's Magazine. XCIII: 389–392.
11. 'INGRAM, Sir Herbert, 3rd Bt cr. 1893', in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2007) online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 30 August 2008
12. 'TOMKINSON, Brigadier Henry Archdale', in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2007) online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007, accessed 30 August 2008

External links

• Works by or about James Tomkinson at Internet Archive
• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by James Tomkinson