Edward Tomes Esq.
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Edward Tomes Esq. (1771 - 1837)

Edward Tomes Esq.
Born in Southam, Warwickshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 27 Jan 1799 in Saint Mary, Warwick, Warwickshiremap
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Died at age 65 in Southam, Warwickshire, Englandmap
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Biography

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Edward Tomes Esq. was born in Warwickshire, England.

Birth and Parentage

Edward Tomes - Christening
Edward was born in Southam, Warwickshire on 16 September 1771, the son of inn-holder John Tomes and his wife Jane. He was christened at St James' Southam on 7 October of the same year.[1]
Front and Rear of The Craven Arms Inn

His father owned a coaching inn, named at different times, The Griffin and The Craven Arms Inn, in Southam, where Edward grew up. The Tomes had been a Southam family since before 1647 and the English Civil War.[2] Edward had an older brother, John, born about 1760, a lawyer and banker[3] who would later become an MP. [4]

Life

[5]
Edward was educated at Brewood Grammar School, [6][7] a boys' school in Brewood, South Staffordshire, where his headmasters were probably the Rev. Pickering M.A., and/or the renowned Dr George Croft D.D.][6]

Edward then followed his brother into law and banking.[2] By July 1805 he was an attorney in Southam, [8]where he lived at the Manor House on Market Hill, [9]and became one of the town’s most prominent gentlemen.

The Manor, Market Hill, Southam

As well as a lawyer and banker, he was the chairman of town committees[10] (both social and business) and more. He was involved in all of Southam’s significant decisions in the early 1800s, such as the Stoney Thorpe Dispensary and Infirmary, situated where Warwick House is today.[2]

1st Marriage and Family

[11]

Edward's elder brother John Tomes, Gent. lived in Church Street, Warwick,[12] in the parish of the collegiate church of St Mary, Warwick, which happened to be the same street in which a certain Joseph Cotton, Mercer, Linen Draper and one of the principal inhabitants [13] also lived. Joseph and Mary Cotton had a daughter, Mary Susannah. [14] [15]

John was one of the joint partners of the Warwick Old Bank of John Tomes, Richard Tomes (John's son) & John Russell, (a private bank founded in 1791 by Dawes, Tomes and Russell). Joseph Cotton not only probably banked there; he and John Tomes were in the same social circles. They also had the same political leanings, voting for Whig reformist Robert Knight in the Warwick by-election of 1792[12] and petitioning Parliament a year later, 'complaining of the undue election and return to Parliament of the Honourable George Villiers', so it is more than likely that Edward and Mary Susannah were introduced through John Tomes. The bank, which became the Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, (and was eventually amalgamated into Lloyds Bank) was represented by a branch in Southam, which Edward Tomes presided over,[9] and was the treasurer for the Southam Eye and Ear Infirmary, established in 1818 by Rev. Henry Lilley Smith.[16]

On 27 January 1799 at St Mary's, Warwick[17], Edward and Mary Susannah married, but their happiness was to be short-lived. Edward's mother Jane died a year later, on February 12th 1800, and the same year, a daughter, Mary Susannah Tomes, daughter of Edward Tomes, was buried at St Mary's Warwick, on 24 June 1800. [18]

Then, after giving birth to a daughter on or shortly before 28th April 1802, Edward's wife Mary Susannah, who probably had childbirth complications when their daughter was born, also passed away, on 19th June 1802 and was buried in Warwick on 21 June.[19]

Edward had their daughter christened Mary, after his wife. She was privately baptised. Her mother was so ill that she was unable to nurse her daughter herself - (in those days it was common for well-to-do families to employ a wet-nurse to nurse their infants, anyway) but Mary may well have been weakened, perhaps by a difficult birth, and it was unsure whether she would live.

Between 1800 and 1835, Edward lived at the manor house in Upper (now Bishop's) Itchington, [20] where he was respected as a liberal and compassionate landlord:

On the 19th ult., Edward Tomes Esq. of Southam, Warwickshire met his tenants at Bishop's Itchington to receive their rents, due at Michaelmas, and very liberally returned to them 25 per cent. in consideration of the reduced prices of agricultural produce. The excellent Landlord at the same time assured his tenantry that in future he should regulate the rents by the value of the farmer's produce. We earnestly hope this noble example will be extensively followed by the rich English landowners. [21][20]

2nd Marriage

Edward married again, on 22 August 1805, in St Anne's Limehouse, London, Caroline Shuttleworth, [22][23]daughter of John Shuttleworth of London, merchant, and his wife Dorothy Firbank. Caroline was descended from the Shuttleworths of Yorkshire. Whether they came from the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire, has yet to be determined.

In 1819 he was a private subscriber for £5 5d., (£301.51 purchasing power in 2017)[24] to the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Southam, Warwickshire, the first hospital of its kind dedicated to providing free treatment for the rural working poor [25]Tomes, Russell and Co, Bankers, Warwick contributed twice the amount.[16]Edward's brother John was a vice-president of the Southam Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Edward was a committee member.[16] His daughter Mary's husband's aunt, Thermuthes Fauquier, who lived at Stoney Thorpe, was also a subscriber.[16] It is possible that Edward was her banker.

His daughter Mary married Henry Thomas Chamberlayne, a prominent local landowner, in St James' Church, Southam, Warwickshire on 6 December 1824, and he was able to see her well provided for in her new home at Stoney Thorpe. [26]

There must have been an increase in crime in Warwickshire at the time. In 1829, the local nobility and gentry was feeling the need to protect their estates and property from burglary and criminal damage, because the 'General Association for the Protection of Property' held a 'General Meeting for Southam and its Vicinity for DETECTING APPREHENDING AND PROSECUTING FELONS TO CONVICTION And also for PROCURING PRIVATE INFORMATION TOUCHING SUSPECTED CHARACTERS ...'on MONDAY the 5th day of JANUARY 1829 at the CRAVEN ARMS INN, in SOUTHAM, pursuant to Public Advertisement for that Purpose.' SIR THEOPHILUS BIDDULPH IN THE CHAIR

Ordered according to social ranking came a list of local dignitaries, including Edward, his son-in-law Henry, and others:

PRESENT MEMBERS
THE RIGHT HON. WILLOUGHBY DE BROKE
CHANDOS LEIGH, Esq. STONELEIGH ABBEY
WM PALMER MOREWOOD, Esq. Ladbroke
HENRY GRESWOLDE LEWIS, Esq. Radford
WILLIAM HOLBECHE, Esq. Farnborough
JOHN SHUCKBOROUGH, Esq. Bourton
J.W. KNIGHTLEY, Esq. Offchurch Bury
T.R. WILSON FRANCE, Esq. Radford
EDWARD TOMES, Esq. Southam
H.T. CHAMBERLAYNE, Esq. Stoney Thorpe

The following rules were unanimously agreed on:

1st. That all Persons desirous of becoming Members of this Association may do so on signifying their Intention to that effect to the Solicitors or either of them, paying one pound immediately to the Treasurer, and conforming to the following Rules.
2d. That Mr Robert Poole of Leamington Priors and Mr Wright of Southam, the Solicitors to this Association, be jointly and severally empowered and authorised to inquire into the circumstances of any Murder or Violent Assault committed on the Wives, Children or Servants of any Member of this Association, as well as any of the offences after mentioned, and to direct the pursuit, apprehension and prosecution of the Person or Persons suspected thereof, and to call a Meeting of the Committee when circumstances shall in their judgment require it, and generally to transact and manage the business of this Association, so as best to promote the end and intent thereof.
3d. That the SEVERAL REWARDS following be paid to any Person or Persons (not being Members of this Association) who shall apprehend and safely deliver into the Custody of the Law, any Offender or Offenders, guilty of any or either of the FELONIOUS OFFENCES hereinafter mentioned, against the Persons, Servants of Property, of any of the Members of this Association, and of which such Offender or Offenders shall afterwards be convicted, that is to say) -
Murder of any member of this Association, or any Member of his family or Servants................................................................................................£50
Setting fire to any Building or Effects..............................................45
Highway or Footpad Robbery...........................................................40
Burglary................................................................................................40
Stealing or Maiming any Horse, Mare, or Gelding, Pigs, Sheep, or Cattle of any description............................................................................................. 30
Capital Offences against the Person of any Member of this Association, or any member of his or her Family or Servants, short of Murder ............20
Receiving Stolen Goods, knowing them to be Stolen.....................20
Breaking into, or Privately Stealing any Money, Goods, or Effects, from any House, or Shop, in the Day time...........................................................10
Stealing Poultry, Wool, Corn, (thrashed or unthrashed), Hay, Straw or Fodder,.....................................................................................................10
Stealing any Implement of Husbandry, or any Turnips, Carrots, or other Roots, Fruits, or Vegetables; or Cutting down or Stealing any Timber or other Tree.......5
Maliciously pulling down any Wall, Fence or Mound whatsoever, or wilfully leaving open any Gate, Bar, Rail, or Stile, whereby any Cattle or any other Animals shall Trespass upon the Fields or Inclosed (sic) Ground of any Member of this Association, or Damaging or Stealing any Hedgewood, or Underwood, or growing Quickset; and for any other Crime or Offence not before mentioned, such Reward as the Members of this Association at the General Yearly Meeting or a Committee Meeting, shall order or direct.
4th. That each Member do pay the Annual Sum of One Pound at each General Annual Meeting, together with his quota of such further Sum as the Exigencies of the Association may require.
5th. That if any Member shall fail to pay his Annual Subscription of One Pound, together with such further or additional Sum or Sums, (if any) as mentioned in the last Article, for the space of Twenty Days next after the same shall respectively become due and payable, and afterwards refuse to pay the same on demand by the Treasurer, for that purpose, that Person shall be considered as having withdrawn himself from this Association, but nevertheless he shall remain liable to his proportionate share of any Expenses that may have been or shall thereafter be incurred, in promoting the objects of this Association as to Offences committed antecedently to his having so withdrawn himself, and such his proportionate share thereof shall be paid into the hands of the Treasurer within Ten Days after Notice given to such Member of the Amount thereof.

(Work in progress.....)

The meetings were still continuing in 1836.

In 1831, Edward became a Justice of the Peace for Warwickshire, alongside his son-in-law, Henry, and brother, John Tomes, M.P. [27]The Sun however, only reported this in August 1833.[28]

His second grandson, born in 1833, was named Edward Tomes Chamberlayne.

Death and Burial

Obit. Edward Tomes[29]

He lived to see five grandchildren, and after an influential life in his town and the surrounding region, Edward passed away after a short illness, on Saturday, 8 April 1837, aged 65. [30][31]

[32]

He was buried in St James, Southam, in a vault inside the church, on 18 April. [33]

Probate Death Notice - Edward Tomes

His will, which he signed on 27 May 1835, was proved on 18 June 1837. The manor of Upper Itchington passed to his grandson, Stanes Brocket Henry Chamberlayne.[34] It is nine pages long and relates to his property and connections around Warwickshire and further afield. [2]

Caroline died aged 74, on 18 September 1840, at Kelveton Hatch Rectory, Essex, and was buried with Edward in St James's, Southam. [35]

Sources

  1. ↑ Edward Tomes, 7 Oct 1771; Christening in England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963. FamilySearch Online Database with images, citing , Warwick County Record Office, England. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) And Image here: from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Southam Heritage Collection. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 27 Nov 2020.
  3. ↑ West, William, (1830)., The History, Topography and Directory of Warwickshire: Inclusive of Some Portions of the Ancient Histories of Rous, Camden, Speed, and Dugdale, with Curious Memoirs of the Lives of These Early English Writers ... a Directory of Every Town and Considerable Village in the County; a Gazetteer of All Towns, Villages, Parishes and Hamlets ... and an Itinerary ...Pub: R. Wrightson. Retrieved from Google e-books (Here;) Accessed 1 Jan 2022.
  4. ↑ Escott, Margaret., (2009); Tomes, John (1760-1844), of Jury Street, Warwick, Warws. Ed: Fisher, D. R., Cambridge: University Press. Retrieved from History of Parliament (Here;) Accessed 30 Dec 2021.
  5. ↑ Freely available from the Internet Repository: Wikimedia Commons., File: Brewood Grammar School 1799 7475-0.jpg Retrieved from Wikimedia (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Notes and collections relating to Brewood., (1860)., Wolverhampton: William Parke., Brewood. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  7. ↑ Smith, James Hicks., (1866)., Brewood: a résumé historical and topographical., W. Parke., (1874). Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  8. ↑ British Newspaper archive. London Chronicle - Thursday 11 July 1805. Retrieved from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 may 2023.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 England (1838)., A list of the country banks of England and Wales, private and proprietary; also of the names of all the shareholders of joint-stock banks &c.. (p.334)., Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 31 Dec 2021.
  10. ↑ Reports from the Commissioners, Volume 33, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons,1837. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 27 Nov 2020.
  11. ↑ Public Domain: The Monthly Magazine, Issues 41-47 R. Phillips, 1799. Freely available from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 31 May 2023.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 The Poll of the Burgesses, of the Borough of Warwick: Taken at Warwick, on the 17th and 18th of January, 1792. George Cattell Esq. Mayor. Candidates, the Honourable George Villiers, and Robert Knight Esquire. ...(p.16)., J. Sharp, 1792. Warwickshire (England). Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 2 Jan 2022
  13. ↑ Joseph Cotton in Principal Inhabitants of Warwick 1793-8. Retrieved from Universal British Directory 1793-1798. Retrieved from Hunimex (Here;) Accessed 1 Jan 2022.
  14. ↑ Google Maps. Church St. Warwick. Retrieved from Google Maps (Here;) Accessed 1 Jan 2022.
  15. ↑ The Poll of the Burgesses, of the Borough of Warwick: Taken at Warwick, on the 17th and 18th of January, 1792. George Cattell Esq. Mayor. Candidates, the Honourable George Villiers, and Robert Knight Esquire. ...(p.6)., J. Sharp, 1792. Warwickshire (England). Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 1 Jan 2022.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 Smith, Henry Lilley., (1819)., Observations on the Prevailing Practice of Supplying Medical Assistance to the Poor: Commonly Called the Farming of Parishes: with Suggestions for the Establishment of Parochial Medicine Chests Or Infirmaries in Agricultural Districts, (pp. 25, 28.,30). Philanthropic Society, 1819. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 31 Dec 2021.
  17. ↑ Edward Tomes and Mary Susannah Cotton, 27 Jan 1799 in England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963, FamilySearch Online Database with images from parish registers of the Church of England, database and images, citing Marriage, St Mary, Warwick, Warwickshire, England, Warwick County Record Office, England. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 31 Dec 2021.
  18. ↑ Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 3 Jan 2021.
  19. ↑ England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963. FamilySearch Online Database with images. From parish registers of the Church of England. Warwick County Record Office, England. Retrieved from FamilySearch (Here;) Accessed 7 Dec 2020.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 A History of the County of Warwick: Volume 6, Knightlow Hundred, ed. L F Salzman (London, 1951), British History Online. Retrieved from (Here;) Accessed 27 Nov 2020.
  21. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Worcester Journal - Thursday 12 March 1835. Retrieved from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  22. ↑ Libby Shade's Page of Family Trees, Shuttleworth - Second Generation, 3. Caroline Shuttleworth. Retrieved from sid(Here;) Accessed 27 Nov 2020.
  23. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette - Thursday 05 September 1805. Retrieved (with sub) from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  24. ↑ National Archives Currency Convertor, 1819. Retrieved from The National Archives (Here;) Accessed 31 Dec 2021.
  25. ↑ Southam Heritage Collection. Henry Lilley Smith. Retrieved from Southern heritage Collection (Here;) Accessed 31 Dec 2021.
  26. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Birmingham Chronicle - Thursday 16 December 1824. Retrieved from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  27. ↑ Parliamentary Papers: 1780-1849, Volume 48, p.13, Warwickshire. Parliament, House of Commons, H.M. Stationery Office, 1834 Great Britain. Retrieved from Google e-Books (Here;) Accessed 27 Nov 2020.
  28. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Sun (London) - Tuesday 6 August 1833. Retrieved from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  29. ↑ Nichols, John., The Gentleman's magazine. (1731) January to June. London. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  30. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Morning Post - Tuesday 11 April 1837. Retrieved from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  31. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, (1834)., London : William Pickering: John Bowyer Nichols and Son. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.
  32. ↑ St James' Southam: Freely available from: Smith, William Lilley., (1894)., Historical notices and recollections relating to the parish of Southam, in the county of Warwick, together with the parochial registers from A.D. 1539, and churchwardens' accounts A.D. 1580, Southam (Warwickshire, England). London: E. Stock. Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 29 May 2023.
  33. ↑ Monumental Inscriptions for Southam, St James' Church. Retrieved from Hunimex (Here;) Accessed 1 Jan 2022
  34. ↑ Ed. Page, William., (1905). The Victoria history of the county of Sussex (sic) (Should be Warwickshire). Retrieved from the Internet Archive (Here;) Accessed 5 Sept 2021.
  35. ↑ British Newspaper Archive. Leamington Spa Courier - Saturday 29 September 1849. Retrieved from bna (Here;) Accessed 30 May 2023.

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Acknowledgements

  • With grateful thanks to Linda Doyle and Bernard Cadogan at the Southam Heritage Collection for permission to quote information from the website, Southam Heritage (Here;) Accessed 22 Sept 2020. Permission given by e-mail on 22 Sept 2020.




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