George Tomlinson (bishop)

George Tomlinson (12 March 1794 – 6 February 1863)[2] was an English cleric, the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar from 1842 to 1863.

[4] Ordained in 1822, Tomlinson became chaplain to William Howley, the Bishop of London, and was employed as a tutor by Sir Robert Peel.

[5] In 1825 he became secretary to the City of London Infant School Society, a High Church alternative around Howley, Peel and Charles James Blomfield to the Infant School Society of Samuel Wilderspin.

[5] There he wrote for the Saturday Magazine, and founded the Clergy List and Ecclesiastical Gazette.

His first wife was Louisa, daughter of Gen. Sir Patrick Stuart; they were married in 1848, and she died in 1850.

Auberge d'Aragon in Valletta , Malta , which was leased to Tomlinson in the 1840s under the name Gibraltar House .
Tomlinson's consecration