James Tomkinson Explained

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

Life

Born in 1840, Tomkinson lived at Willington Hall, Chester. He was the son of Waterloo veteran Lieutenant-Colonel William Tomkinson and Susan, daughter of Thomas Tarleton of Bolesworth Castle, Cheshire^[2] and a descendent of Sir Roland Egerton, 1st Baronet.

He was High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1887. In 1895, he unsuccessfully contested Nuneaton for the Liberals,^[3] 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.^[4] He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Cheshire in 1901, became Second Church Estates Commissioner in 1907, and member of the Privy Council in November 1909.

In 1871 Tomkinson married Emily Frances Palmer, a daughter of Sir George Palmer, 3rd Baronet, by his marriage to Emily Elizabeth Holford.^[5]

Tomkinson died on 10 April 1910 from injuries sustained in a fall while participating in the House of Commons Steeplechase.^[6]

Descendants

• Charles William Tomkinson (1877–1939)^[5]
• James Edward Tomkinson, later Palmer-Tomkinson (1879–1961)^[5]

• 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 (1971–2017)

• 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)^[7]
• Henry Archdale Tomkinson (1881–1937) (Brigadier Tomkinson), manager of the royal Racing and Breeding Studs^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 6) . Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages . 5 May 2009 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20140924144234/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons6.htm . 24 September 2014 .
2. Book: Tomkinson, William. Tomkinson. James. The Diary of a Cavalry Officer in the Peninsular and Waterloo Campaign, 1809–1815. 1894. S. Sonnenschein & Company. vi.
3. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/A2A/records.aspx?cat=017-dtm&cid=-1&Gsm=2008-06-18 Tomkinson of Willington Hall collection
4. Book: Craig , F. W. S. . F. W. S. Craig

   . F. W. S. Craig . British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 . 1974 . 2nd . 1989 . Parliamentary Research Services . Chichester . 978-0-900178-27-6 . 231.

5. http://www.thepeerage.com/p14945.htm#i149450 Rt. Hon. James Tomkinson
6. Staff. The late Mr. James Tomkinson, M.P.. Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes. May 1910. XCIII. 389–392.
7. '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. Retrieved 30 August 2008
8. 'TOMKINSON, Brigadier Henry Archdale', in Who Was Who (London: A. & C. Black, 1920–2007) online edition (subscription required) by Oxford University Press, December 2007. Retrieved 30 August 2008