Sir William Tomlinson, 1st Baronet

Sir William Edward Murray Tomlinson, 1st Baronet, DL (4 August 1838 – 17 December 1912) was an English lawyer, colliery owner and Conservative politician.

Tomlinson was born at Heysham House in the Lancaster registration district in Lancashire and became a barrister.

It was announced that he would receive a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours list published on 26 June 1902 for the (subsequently postponed) coronation of King Edward VII,[4] and on 24 July 1902 he was created a Baronet, of Richmond terrace, Whitehall, in the city of Westminster, in the county of London.

[6] Winston Churchill was challenged to fisticuffs when he referred to Tomlinson as "a miserable old man".

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