George Tomlinson (bishop)
George Tomlinson ( born March 12, 1794 in Lancashire, † February 6, 1863 in Valletta, Malta) was a British clergyman of the Anglican Church, and since 1842 the first " Lord Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe" with a spare seat in Malta and responsibility for the entire European continent.
Life
Right Reverend Tomlinson, from ancient Welsh family, attended St. Saviour's Grammar School and studied from October 16, 1818 at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1820 he founded the Cambridge Apostles, an educated along the lines of Freemasonry elite, intellectual secret society at the University of Cambridge. He completed his studies at the April 18, 1822 with a Bachelor of Arts, made in 1826 Master of Arts, and finally received his doctorate in 1842 as a doctor of theology.
From 1831 to 1842 he was secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. His career as a clergyman, he began as a chaplain to the Bishop of London, he was tutor in the family of Sir Robert Peel. From 1832 to 1842 he was then pastor of St. Matthew 's Chapel at Spring Gardens Road in Westminster ( London).
On August 24, 1842 he received his episcopal consecration in Westminster Abbey and was introduced on November 6, 1842 in his office as " Lord Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe" with a salary of 1,200 pounds. In April 1843 he set out on the journey to Malta, for which he had jurisdiction, and reached Gibraltar on August 3, 1843 where he has since in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity ( Holy Trinity Cathedral ), the mother church of the Diocese Europe, his ministry was doing. He held until his death on February 6, 1863 This Office. He was the first Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar and in this function responsible for all non-UK living or traveling members of his religious community. Therefore, he was also the 1860 chairman of a church committee in Bad Kissingen, which was built in the Bavarian state in 1855 an Anglican church, after seven years of construction and invariably funded by donations could finally be consecrated 1862.
Tomlinson married his first wife, on 21 November 1848 Castle Eaglescairnie ( Lothian ( Scotland)) Louisa Stuart (* October 15, 1815, † September 15, 1850 ), the eldest daughter of the later General Sir Patrick Stuart ( 1777-1855 ) on Eaglescairnie, Grand Cross Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George and former governor of Malta, and the Catharine - Henrietta Rodney ( 1791-1870 ). His second wife he married on January 6, 1855 in London's St. James's Eleanor Jane Mackenzie - Fraser († October 22, 1858 ), the daughter of Colonel Charles Mackenzie - Fraser ( 1792-1871 ), Lord of Castle Fraser and Inverallochy in Aberdeenshire (Scotland ), and Jane Hay. The couple moved to Malta, where the three children were born. As Tomlinson died in February, 1863, his three small children were Eleanor (* March 21, 1856, † April 4, 1944 ), George ( * April 16, 1857 ) and Mary ( born May 10, 1858) to orphans.
In Malta Tomlinson was on duty in the capital Valletta in the Cathedral of St. Paul, where today a memorial to him. There is an oil portrait, painted by Lowes Cato Dickinson ( 1819-1908 ).
In a special library of the University of Aberdeen today are his astronomical and archaeological records archived.
Publications
- On the royal names and titles on the sarcophagus in the British Museum, formerly called the tomb of Alexander, in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Volume 2, 1834
- On a royal Egyptian coffin in the British Museum, in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Volume 3, 1839
- On the Flaminian obelisk, in: Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Series 2, Volume 1, 1843, p 176-191 ( digitized )