Samuel Toller

Sir Samuel Toller (1764–1821)^[1] was an English advocate-general of Madras and legal writer.

Life

He was son of Thomas Toller (1732–1795), who succeeded his father-in-law, Samuel Lawrence, as preacher to the Presbyterian congregation in Monkwell Street, London. He was educated at Charterhouse School.^[1]

Toller was admitted to Lincoln's Inn 27 March 1781, was called to the bar, and in March 1812 was appointed Advocate-General of Madras. He was subsequently knighted, and died in India on his way to Bangalore on 19 November 1821.^[2]

Works

Toller was the author of two legal works:^[2]

• The Law of Executors and Administrators, London, 1800; 7th ed. by Francis Whitmarsh, 1838; 2nd American edit. by T. F. Gordon, Philadelphia, 1824, 3rd American edit. by E. D. Ingraham, 1834.
• Treatise of the Law of Tithes: compiled in Part from some Notes of Richard Wooddeson, London, 1808; 3rd ed. 1822.

Family

In 1793 Toller married Miss Cory of Cambridge, sister of Robert Towerson Cory, by whom he had issue.^[2] Of three daughters:

• the eldest married in 1817 the Rev. William Malkin^[3]
• the second, Caroline, married in 1818 Thomas Gellibrand, Sheriff of Madras.^[4][5] The marriage took place in St. George's Church, Choultry Plain.^[6] Gellibrand died on 26 June 1824, aged 31.^[7] Caroline returned to the United Kingdom, on the Lord Hungerford, with two children, sailing in 1825.^[8] She married again, dying on 16 November 1875 the widow of William Foy of Stoke Newington.^[9][10]
• the third married in 1825 General George Whitlock (died 1867)^[5]

Toller died intestate. Through the law firm Brundrett & Spinks, his estate was paid to sons Edward, Thomas and Frederick.^[11][12]

Frederick Toller

Frederick Toller entered St Bees Theological College in 1834;^[13] and was ordained priest by Charles Longley, the Bishop of Ripon, in 1838.^[14] He was parish priest in a number of parishes on both sides of the Pennines. He was perpetual curate at Mytholmroyd in 1837.^[15] He was carrying out baptisms in Bury, Lancashire in 1837;^[16] and from 1837 to 1840 he was vicar of Hebden Bridge.^[17] In 1841 he was the incumbent at Crosscrake chapel.^[18] He applied for financial support to re-endow St Laurence's Church, Morland in 1844.^[19] He carried out baptisms in Thornton-le-Fylde in 1845–6.^[20]

Toller officiated at St Mary, Stoke Newington on 2 August 1851, for the wedding of his niece Caroline Maria Foy, daughter of William Foy of Stoke Newington, to Alexander Nowell Robertson.^[21] At this period, from December 1850 to April 1852, he was headmaster of the school at Cavendish, Suffolk.^[22] In 1852 he was at Ballingdon.^[23]

By 1854 Toller was in the Midlands, at Stone, Staffordshire in 1854.^[24] From there, that year, he published an edition of Phaedrus, for school use, translated into English verse.^[25] In 1859, when he was curate of St Andrew's Church, Bordesley, a son Ludovic Thomas died.^[26] His wife Ann died at Winslow, Buckinghamshire in 1863, aged 39.^[27] Toller died at Datchworth in 1864, aged 57. He had been curate at Hanley, Staffordshire.^[28]

Notes

1. Stearn, Roger T. "Toller, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/27501. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
2. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Toller, Samuel" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
3. "Malkin, William (MLKN811W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
4. Archives, The National. "The Discovery Service". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk.
5. Cotton, Julian James (1905). List of Inscriptions on Tombs Or Monuments in Madras Possessing Historical Or Archaeological Interest. Superintendent, Government Press. p. 87.
6. Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia. Wm. H. Allen & Company. 1819. p. 200.
7. Cotton, Julian James (1945). List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras. Vol. I. p. 119.
8. Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia. Wm. H. Allen & Company. 1825. p. 618.
9. "Deaths". Homeward Mail from India, China and the East. 22 November 1875. p. 20.
10. "Deaths". The Hour. 22 November 1875. p. 1.
11. Britain, Great (1833). The London Gazette. T. Neuman.
12. "Brundrett & Co OF 10 Kings Bench Walk, Solicitors: Clients' Papers". TNA.
13. St Bees College Calendar (1856). The St. Bees College Calendar. p. 24.
14. The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England. 1839. p. 31.
15. Foster, Joseph (1890). Index Ecclesiasticus: Or, Alphabetical Lists of All Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales Since the Reformation. Parker & Company. p. 174.
16. "Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project". www.lan-opc.org.uk.
17. "Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : T". www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk.
18. Whellan, William (1860). The History and Topography of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland: With Furness and Cartmel, in Lancashire, Comprising Their Ancient and Modern History, a General View of Their Physical Character, Trade, Commerce, Manufactures, Agricultural Condition, Statistics, Etc., Etc. W. Whellan and Company. p. 837.
19. Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (1848). Parliamentary Papers. H.M. Stationery Office. p. 28.
20. "Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project". www.lan-opc.org.uk.
21. "Marriages". Saint James's Chronicle. 5 August 1851. p. 4.
22. "East Anglian Miscellany". East Anglian Daily Times. 16 March 1901. p. 11.
23. Slater, Isaac (1852). Slater's, late Pigot & co., royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire. p. 69.
24. Kelly's Directories Ltd (1854). Post office directory of Birmingham, Warwickshire, and part of Staffordshire (of Birmingham, with Warwickshire, Worcestershire and Staffordshire) [afterw.] Kelly's directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, and Worcestershire. p. 384.
25. Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer. Edward Cave. 1864. p. 660.
26. "Died". Birmingham Daily Post. 14 January 1859. p. 2.
27. "Winslow". Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette. 28 March 1863. p. 7.
28. "Deaths". Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette. 16 August 1864. p. 4.

Attribution

  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Toller, Samuel". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.