Tomline

The following is a _précis_ of a letter of Rose to Tomline which is among the Pretyman MSS.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Pretyman-Tomline, Bishop of Lincoln, committed to the ground the maimed body of the greatest of our sea captains.

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Formerly in possession of M.. Tomline, and purchased in 1860 from M. Edmond Beaucousin at Paris.

Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

Forest, he often conversed on this topic; and his host thus summed up his own conclusions in a letter to Bishop Tomline:

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Tomline then describes the cause and the circumstances of Pitt's resignation: [591]

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Page 456, Footnote 609, "Soo" changed to "So" (So, too, Tomline said).

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

From the notes of Tomline we glean curious details about the illness.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

The fact that Chatham paid not a shilling towards the discharge of Pitt's liabilities proves that he was in low water; and as no one, not even Tomline, knew of the source of Pitt's embarrassments, they must have been of a peculiarly delicate character.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

The King, however, who did not admire Tomline, and believed the Bishop of Norwich to have prior claims, refused his reiterated requests.

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898

Tomline said that Pitt had no ear for music, and little taste for drawing or painting, though he was fond of architecture, and once drew from memory the plan of a mansion in Norfolk, with a view to improving it (Lord Rosebery, "Tomline's Estimate of Pitt," 34).

William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898