Samuel Toller

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.

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.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Toller, Samuel|volume=56}}

Toller was the author of two legal works:

• 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.

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

• the eldest married in 1817 the Rev. William Malkin{{acad|id=MLKN811W|name=Malkin, William}}
• the second, Caroline, married in 1818 Thomas Gellibrand, Sheriff of Madras.{{cite web |last1=Archives |first1=The National |title=The Discovery Service |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F79743 |website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}{{cite book |last1=Cotton |first1=Julian James |title=List of Inscriptions on Tombs Or Monuments in Madras Possessing Historical Or Archaeological Interest |date=1905 |publisher=Superintendent, Government Press |page=87 |language=en}} The marriage took place in St. George's Church, Choultry Plain.{{cite book |title=Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia |date=1819 |publisher=Wm. H. Allen & Company |page=200 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8g0oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA200 |language=en}} Gellibrand died on 26 June 1824, aged 31.{{cite book |last1=Cotton |first1=Julian James |title=List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Madras|date=1945 |page=119|volume=I |url=https://archive.org/details/ListOfInscriptionsOnTombsMonumentsMadrasVol1Cotton/page/n129/mode/1up |language=English}} Caroline returned to the United Kingdom, on the Lord Hungerford, with two children, sailing in 1825.{{cite book |title=Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British and Foreign India, China and Australasia |date=1825 |publisher=Wm. H. Allen & Company |page=618 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBAoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA618 |language=en}} She married again, dying on 16 November 1875 the widow of William Foy of Stoke Newington.{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001712/18751122/074/0020 |work=Homeward Mail from India, China and the East |date=22 November 1875|page=20}}{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002814/18751122/004/0001 |work=The Hour |date=22 November 1875|page=1}}
• the third married in 1825 General George Whitlock (died 1867)

Toller died intestate. Through the law firm Brundrett & Spinks, his estate was paid to sons Edward, Thomas and Frederick.{{cite book |last1=Britain |first1=Great |title=The London Gazette |date=1833 |publisher=T. Neuman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XzFKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1971 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Brundrett & Co OF 10 Kings Bench Walk, Solicitors: Clients' Papers |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f30f32ed-d782-4663-aa38-8fe5a52e9c17 |website=TNA |language=English}}

Frederick Toller entered St Bees Theological College in 1834;{{cite book |last1=St Bees College Calendar |title=The St. Bees College Calendar |date=1856 |page=24 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rd8NAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA24 |language=en}} and was ordained priest by Charles Longley, the Bishop of Ripon, in 1838.{{cite book |title=The Ecclesiastical gazette, or, Monthly register of the affairs of the Church of England |date=1839 |page=31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r5sOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA31 |language=en}} He was parish priest in a number of parishes on both sides of the Pennines. He was perpetual curate at Mytholmroyd in 1837.{{cite book |last1=Foster |first1=Joseph |title=Index Ecclesiasticus: Or, Alphabetical Lists of All Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales Since the Reformation |date=1890 |publisher=Parker & Company |page=174 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3JBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA174 |language=en}} He was carrying out baptisms in Bury, Lancashire in 1837;{{cite web |title=Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project |url=https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Bury/Bury/stmary/baptisms_1837.html |website=www.lan-opc.org.uk}} and from 1837 to 1840 he was vicar of Hebden Bridge.{{cite web |title=Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : T |url=http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/t.html#t152 |website=www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk}} In 1841 he was the incumbent at Crosscrake chapel.{{cite book |last1=Whellan |first1=William |title=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 |date=1860 |publisher=W. Whellan and Company |page=837 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEI7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA837 |language=en}} He applied for financial support to re-endow St Laurence's Church, Morland in 1844.{{cite book |last1=Great Britain Parliament House of Commons |title=Parliamentary Papers |date=1848 |publisher=H.M. Stationery Office |page=28 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c4gSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA28 |language=en}} He carried out baptisms in Thornton-le-Fylde in 1845–6.{{cite web |title=Lancashire OnLine Parish Clerk Project |url=https://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Thornton-le-Fylde/christchurch/baptisms_1841-1866.html |website=www.lan-opc.org.uk}}

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.{{cite news |title=Marriages |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002193/18510805/031/0004 |work=Saint James's Chronicle |date=5 August 1851|page=4}} At this period, from December 1850 to April 1852, he was headmaster of the school at Cavendish, Suffolk.{{cite news |title=East Anglian Miscellany |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001727/19010316/230/0011 |work=East Anglian Daily Times |date=16 March 1901|page=11}} In 1852 he was at Ballingdon.{{cite book |last1=Slater |first1=Isaac |title=Slater's, late Pigot & co., royal national and commercial directory and topography of the counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire |date=1852 |page=69 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0tkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA9-PA69 |language=en}}

By 1854 Toller was in the Midlands, at Stone, Staffordshire in 1854.{{cite book |last1=Kelly's Directories Ltd |title=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 |date=1854 |page=384 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X-UNAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA384 |language=en}} From there, that year, he published an edition of Phaedrus, for school use, translated into English verse.{{cite book |title=Gentleman's Magazine, Or Monthly Intelligencer |date=1864 |publisher=Edward Cave |page=660 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G_dfAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA660 |language=en}} In 1859, when he was curate of St Andrew's Church, Bordesley, a son Ludovic Thomas died.{{cite news |title=Died |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000033/18590114/012/0002 |work=Birmingham Daily Post |date=14 January 1859|page=2}} His wife Ann died at Winslow, Buckinghamshire in 1863, aged 39.{{cite news |title=Winslow |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000989/18630328/097/0007 |work=Oxford Chronicle and Reading Gazette |date=28 March 1863|page=7}} Toller died at Datchworth in 1864, aged 57. He had been curate at Hanley, Staffordshire.{{cite news |title=Deaths |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001091/18640816/100/0004 |work=Leighton Buzzard Observer and Linslade Gazette |date=16 August 1864|page=4}}

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