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O. Tabberer
Newsroom subscriber: 1831.

William Talbot
Subscriber: 6/2/1826 to 3/3/1828.
The final transfer was by Thomas Talbot.

Marriott Ogle Tarbotton
Nottingham’s first full-time Borough Surveyor and Engineer. (1834-1887).
Subscriber: 4/9/1865 to 1/9/1890.

He signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867.

Gift:

The life of Marriott Ogle Tarbotton
1 Sep 1831
 At St Peter's church in Leeds Samuel Tarbotton (1801-1850) married Grace Ogle (1802-1884), the daughter of Mary Ellis and John Ogle.
6th December 1834 Born in Leeds.
He was the second son of Samuel and Grace Tarbotton, née Ogle. They had six children.
2nd April 1835 Baptised in Leeds.
1850
 His father, Samuel Tarbotton, who was a druggist,  died.
1851
 Hiis widowed mother was living at 20, Dockingham Street, Leeds, with three children aged between 4 and 14.
One was Caroline Tarbotton.
Marriott was an assistant engineer under Harry T. Herbert (b.1817 in Bethnal Green) along with Alfred B. Bennett. Both men gave their ages as 18.

He was articled to Charles Clapham, a civil engineer of Wakefield.
He eventually succeeded to Clapham's practice
1855
 He became Borough Surveyor of Wakefield.
(3rd quarter) 1857
 He married Emma Maria Stanfield in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
6th October 1859
 He was appointed as Surveyor to Nottingham Corporation, both in its capacity as a Local Board of Health and as owner of estates.
He was then described as 'of Wakefield' and aged 27, although in fact he was only 24.
His salary was £250 per annum
March 1861 He was living at Newstead Grove, Nottingham, with his wife Emrna Maria and a son aged 3, to whom he had given an additional Christian name of Brunel, no doubt as a mark of his appreciation of that engineer. [Census return]
1862
 He was elected as a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers.
His proposer was Thomas Hawksley.
1863
 Designed and built: the pagoda in the Arboretum.
1871
 Designed and built: Trent Bridge
1881-85
 Designed and built: Papplewick Pumping Station




Information based on material from Stevie Robinson (October 2009)
and on
Geoffrey Oldfield (1995) Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire. Vol: XCIX, p.87. The construction of Papplewick Pumping Station, Notts, 1881-85.


Tariff Commission
They gave a copy of their reports for 1904 to 1909 (12 vols.) (17/4/1914).

Allen Tatham
Lace manufacturer.
Address: Magdala Road.
Subscriber: 7/12/1909 to 1916.
Share number: 105 (counterfoil dated 12/4/1910).
A registration fee of 2s 6d was received from E. Harlow on 19/11/1909 in respect of a share transfer from Higginbottom.

Thomas Tatham
Surgeon.
Subscriber: 2/2/1829 to 7/11/1831.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

Thomas P. Tatham
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 4/4/1831.

Miss E. Tayler
Subscriber: 2/2/1824 to 3/4/1860.

Dr Alfred Claude Taylor, MD
Subscriber: 7/5/1877 to 1/10/1890.
The share was transferred from Henry Taylor.

Ann Taylor
See –– Joseph Gilbert.

C. Taylor
Subscriber: 31/3/1851 to 6/2/1871.
He was known as ‘Junior’.

Dr Charles Bell Taylor, MD, FRCS (Edinburgh) (c.1829-1909)
Surgeon oculist; ophthalmic surgeon.
Address: Beechwood Hall or House, Woodborough Road, Mapperley Park.
Subscriber: 5/12/1881 to 6/2/1912.
Share number: 212 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).

It was noted (4/12/1911) that a Miss Jackson was using the share of the late C. Bell Taylor without it having been properly transferred.
A letter was sent to the deceased’s solicitor, J.C. Warren, asking that this be seem to and the subscription was paid on 2/1/1912.

He was appointed to the Nottingham Eye Infirmary in 1859 and was the first to perform a cataract operation without leaving a scar.
He had a world wide reputation and would see over a hundred patients in a day and perform ten operations.

An opinion of him published in the British Medical Journal read:
Probably his abstemious mode of living, combined with his great vitality to produce this result; he never had more than two meals a day, and he abstained altogether from alcohol, tobacco, and even from tea and coffee.
Certainly it is given to few men to perform as he did at 80 years of age, the most exacting operations, with a hand as steady as in his prime.

He was born in Nottingham and educated at the Collegiate School in Southwell and at the University of Edinburgh.

A strong individualist who hated compulsion, he was a lover of animals and wrote frequently against vivisection.
He supported the repeal of the Contagious Diseases Act but opposed compulsory vaccination.
His Brougham drawn by white horses was well known in Nottingham.
He died at his home in Woodborough Road. (Mellors, 1914)

Deceased.

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Dr Charles Bell Taylor
[4032]


David Taylor
Subscriber: 4/7/1831 to 2/5/1836.
Newsroom subscriber: 1831.

Dr H. Taylor
Subscriber: 3/4/1843 to 4/12/1848.
Address: Dispensary.
The share transfer was from Richard Taylor.

Dr Herbert Owen Taylor, MD
Surgeon.
Address: 10 Oxford Street.
Subscriber: 5/5/1891 to 1916.
Share number: 213 (counterfoil dated 20/3/1909).
He was born in Nottingham in 1850 and educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Guys Hospital.
He was senior surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital.
TaylorHO-4033
Dr Herbert Owen Taylor
[4033]


Henry Taylor
Subscriber: 1/10/1838 to 7/5/1877.
The share was transferred to Alfred Claude Taylor.

Henry Taylor
Coal Merchant.
Address: 40 Upper Talbot Street, 71 Upper Parliament Street and No 4 Midland Wharf, Nottingham.
A single payment of 18s 0d for coal was recorded for 15/6/1881.

Hester Taylor
See –– William Watts.

John Taylor
Newsroom subscriber: 1831, 1832.

John Archibald Taylor
Civil engineer.
Address: 4 Clarendon Street (Standard Hill) [sic].
Subscriber: 8/4/1902 to 1916.
Share number: 142 (counterfoil dated 3/2/1903).

John Bagshaw Taylor, J.P. (c.1812-1893)
Magistrate and farmer (162 acres employing four men and two boys (1871)
Subscriber: 3/2/1879 to 7/3/1881.
Address: Radcliffe Hall, Radcliffe-on-Trent.

Born in about 1812 East Bridgford he was a churchwarden and magistrate as well as being active in local politics.
In 1854 he married Anne Marie Dakeyne (b.c. 1825 in Leek, Staffordshire; d.c. 1873).
In 1857, on the death of his father, William Taylor (c.1783-1857), he took over Radcliffe Hall (now the Royal British Legion).

Having given birth to a stillborn daughter in 1855, Anne Marie produced two sons:
  1. John Montague Wood Taylor (b.c. 1857 and baptised in Radcliffe-on-Trent on 6/2/1857);
  2. William H.D. Taylor (b.1860 in Radcliffe-on-Trent).
Census returns for Radcliffe-on-Trent show:
Late in life he moved to Westbourne Lodge, Scarborough and is buried at East Bridgford alongside his wife.

Scan-TaylorJB-Sig
The signature of
John Bagshaw Taylor


P.W.H. Taylor
See –– W. Lucy & Co. Ltd.

Richard Taylor
Subscriber: April 1834 to 3/4/1843.

Sir Robert Taylor (1714-1788)
Architect.

Regarding the architect of Bromley House Neville Hoskins (1991) states:
The evidence suggests that a London architect provided the plan and detailed drawings for the facade and the main fireplaces, while local craftsmen were responsible for the lesser fireplaces and the internal decoration. It is suggested that Sir Robert Taylor was the architect (Pevsner & Williamson, 1951).

Taylor started his career as a sculptor, and in 1744 was responsible for the pediment of London's Mansion House which has since been demolished, and for statuary work at the Bank of England. From 1745 onwards he turned to architecture and is perhaps best known for a series of villas for clients with City backgrounds, many connected with the Bank of England.

In 1755 he built Harleyford Manor in Buckinghamshire, of which Marcus Binney writes 'the house is given a new compactness by using the central domed hall for a staircase'. Binney continues; 'in the centre is a staircase core consisting of main stairs with a back stair to one side of it' (Country Life, CXLII, pp. 17-21 & 78-82).

Robert Taylor commonly produced plain but well proportioned exteriors. George Smith was certainly connected with banking, and with the City of London, and whilst the evidence is far from conclusive, it would be fascinating if it transpired that Robert Taylor developed his ideas for compact houses with top-lit staircases, at Bromley House.

Maidenhead Bridge over the River Thames was also designed by Taylor.

Thomas J. Taylor
Subscriber: 2/7/1855 to 4/6/1860.

Taylor & Ross
Gutta percha, India rubber and waterproof merchants.
Address: 4 Angel Row (Wright, 1915-16).

They supplied a hose pipe to the Library in March 1910 at a cost of £1 17s 3d.

J.H. Teal
Subscriber: 15/7/1880 to 4/12/1882.

Mrs Tebbutt
Subscriber: 1/11/1830 to 7/6/1831.
Address: Kingston.

Henry Richard Tedder (1850-1924)
Librarian of The Athenaeum from 1874 to 1922, Honorary Treasurer of the Library Association from 1889 to 1924 and President of the Library Association in 1897.

His portrait is in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

He was the uncle of Arthur William Tedder (1890-1967), 1st Baron Tedder, Marshal of the RAF . [Peter Hoare]

H.R. Tedder received Bromley House Library's subscription of £1 1s 0d  to the Library Association in March 1900.


David Teniers
Artist.
A Dutch scene - kitchen interior described as in the manner of David Teniers [oil on canvas; 29.5 x 24.5 inches] is in the Reading Room (2006).
It is thought to be by John Collet (c.1725-1780) imitating Hemskirk.

Mrs E. Thackeray
Subscriber: 3/5/1892 to 7/4/1903.
Address: Arno Vale

The share was transferred from J.L. Thackeray (deceased) and finally transferred to John Wild Thackeray.
Deceased.

John Thackeray
Subscriber: 7/5/1832 to 1/4/1848.
Newsroom subscriber: 1831, 1832, 1833.

In May 1835 he had fines of 2s 6d for lending Sir Henry Halford’s Essays and Orations to Mr Maltby (4/5/1835) and in the following month he was warned that the fines due would be enforced (1/6/1835).

Mrs John Thackeray
Subscriber: 1/4/1848 to 2/2/1857.

The share seems to have been passed from Mr to Mrs in about 1848.
The final transfer was to John Thackeray (John L. Thackeray).

John L. Thackeray
Lord Mayor of Nottingham in 1854-55 and 1866-7.
Subscriber: 2/2/1857 to 3/5/1892.
The share was transferred from another Thackeray.

As 'Mayor', he was to send the Kneller painting of the Duke of Richmond, after cleaning, for exhibition at the Kensington Portrait gallery (5/2/1866)    

He signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867.
Deceased.
The share was transferred to Mrs E. Thackeray.

Colonel John Wild Thackeray
Gentleman.
Address: Forest Hill, New Radford.
Subscriber: 7/4/1903 to 12/5/1903 and 7/6/1910 to 7/12/1915..
Share number: 7 (counterfoil dated 28/4/1911).

He received a written apology from John Russell, Honorary Secretary, for the delay in making available Nash’s Worcestershire.
This had been due to the time taken to acquire some special leather needed in the repair of the volume.

Counterfoil number 140, dated 20/3/1909, for share number 140 records that he was one of four trustees for the late Louis G. Liepmann.
The share was transferred from Mrs Thackeray (deceased).

John Theaker
Subscriber: 4/4/1837 to 1/3/1841.
The transfer of a share is also recorded for 7/11/1836.

William Thickett, Esq.
Silk merchant.
Address: Ivy Gate, Redcliffe Road.
Subscriber: 6/2/1860 to 6/3/1871.
Share number: 214 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901.
The share was transferred to W. Thickett, Junior.

W. Thickett
Subscriber: 6/3/1871 to 1916.
In 1916 he had been a subscriber for more than 45 years.
He was known as 'Junior'.
The share was transferred from W. Thickett.
He bought books from the Library for:
£1 16s 6d 13/11/1901
14s 0d 9/12/1905
£1 2s 0d 21/12/1909
£1 1s 6d 12/12/1913
£1 17s 0d 12/12/1902
14s 0d 12/12/1906
£1 2s 0d 30/11/1910
6s 0d 13/2/1915
£1 0s 0d 8/12/1903
£1 2s 0d 11/12/1907
£1 0s 0d 23/12/1911


£1 0s 0d 3/12/1904
£1 1s 0d 17/12/1908
£1 1s 6d 16/12/1912




Rev John Morgan Lloyd Thomas
Subscriber: 9/10/1900 to 3/2/1914.
The share transfer is also listed on 12/3/1901.

Minuted book requests:
He paid 6s 0d to the Library on 18/3/1911, but the reason for this is not recorded.

William Hendy Thomas
Dentist or Dental Surgeon.
Address: 8 Park Terrace.
Subscriber: 1/10/1912 to 1916.
Share number: 18 (counterfoil dated 15/4/1913).

Thomasson
See –– W.H. Tomasson.

Mr Thompson
Tenant. Photographer.
He and Joseph Whitlock were tenants at Bromley House from January to March 1849.
The two of them, or perhaps Thompson on his own, held a lease from April 1851.

Two years later in April 1853 he was given a month’s notice to quit his premises (4/4/1853) and on 6/6/1853 they were let to John Frederick Davis at 30s 0d per month.
See  –– Joseph Whitlock and Whitlock and Thompson.

Mrs(?) J. Thompson
The Standfast Ledger records the name but shows no borrowings.

John Northon Thompson
Subscriber: 2/9/1839 to 6/8/1878.
The Standfast Ledger records ten borrowings between 3/8/1842 and 31/5/1850.

In March 1851 he signed a requisition to the Committee to reduce the annual subscription from 42s. 0d to 30s. 0d (17/3/1851) and he also signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867 and that regarding the tenure of the office of President in May 1875. See –– J. Place.
Deceased.

Dr Joseph Thompson, MD
Surgeon.
Address: Oxford Street.
Subscriber: 12/9/1905 to 1916.
Share number: 217 (counterfoil dated 31/5/1906).
He was a subscriber to Russell’s History (1916).

He was born on 17/2/1844 at Pelham Street and educated at University College, London.
He was a surgeon at Nottingham general Hospital.

In 1874 he married Edith M., daughter of W.H. Wilcockson, a bank manager.

ThompsonJ-4136
 ThompsonJ-4034
Two portraits and the signature of
Dr Joseph Thompson
[4034 & 4136]


Robert Thompson
He was a member of the ‘Town Class’ of the White Lion Book Society in 1788-89 (See ––  William Moore).

Sidney Thompson, Esq.
Silk merchant.
Address: 6 The Ropewalk.
Subscriber: 3/4/1883 to 1916.
Share number: 213 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).

William Thompson
Subscriber: 7/2/1825 to 7/3/1853.
Newsroom subscriber: 1832.
Deceased.

Adam Thoms
Gift:

Thomas Thorne
He supplied a book in December 1900 at a cost of £2 10s 6d.

F.W. Thorne
Sub-librarian: 9/7/1901 to 5/2/1907.

His appointment in was reported in July 1901 after the post had been advertised at least twice (9/7/1901).
Initially he was paid £1 0s 0d per week (13/8/1901) which was increased by 2s 0d a year later (8/7/1902).
His holiday of 14 days starting on 24/7/1904 was confirmed on 12/7/1904.

He bought a book (or books) from the Library for 2s 6d on 15/5/1903.

His resignation to go to Canada was accepted with regret (8/1/1907) and subscriptions of 5s 0d from subscribers were invited and this raised £34 10s 0d (5/2/1907).

Joan E. Taylor recalls how in 1970 the Library was visited by an elderly gentleman on holiday from San Francisco who said that he had worked at Bromley House as a junior assistant from 1895 to 1899, and recalling the time with great affection.
No name was given (Taylor, 1988).
The dates do not fit but this could have been F.W. Thorne.

William Thorne
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 3/7/1826.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

Charles Thornton
Subscriber: 6/2/1843 to 3/2/1879.
Address: Castle Terrace.
The Standfast Ledger records two borrowings between 26/5/1856 and 31/3/1858.

At the 1861 General Meeting he was one who presented a motion regarding the licensing of the vaults (2/4/1861) and some years later he was one of the 23 subscribers asking on that salaries and wages at the Library be reduced (2/3/1867).

Rev Claude Cyprian Thornton
Clerk in Holy orders.
Address: The Vicarage, Greasley.
Subscriber: 4/5/1909 to 6/7/1915.
Share number: 198 (counterfoil dated 12/4/1910).
A registration fee of 2s 6d was received on 18/4/1910 and 31/12/1910.
He bought a book (or books) from the Library for: 11s 6d (20/1/1911).

Henry Edward Thornton, JP (b.1842)
Banker.
Address: 58 The Ropewalk; Kegworth.
Subscriber: 6/2/1871 to 1916. In 1916 he had been a subscriber for more than 45 years.
Share number: 216 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).
Committee: 1882, 1883
Finance Committee: 1882, 1883.

ThorntonHE-4576
Henry Edward Thornton

The picture is from the report in the Church Magazine
on the Church Congress held in Nottingham in 1897.
[4576]

He was present at 1894 General Meeting and he was a subscriber to Russell’s History (1916).

He worked for fifty years with the Bank of Samuel Smith & Co with which he had family connections.
He supported the Church Missionary Society and the Nottingham General Hospital.
He married twice, his first wife being a sister of Field-Marshall Lord Grenfell (Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (1841-1925)) and one of five daughters of Pascoe St Leger Grenfell (1798-1879).
His second wife was a descendent of Abel Smith, the banker.
His eldest daughter became the wife of the Bishop of Winchester, two of his sons were killed in the First World War and another son became Rector of Wollaton (Mellors, 1924)

John Thornton
Subscriber: 2/1/1862 to 3/6/1872.
He signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867.

It is probable that this is John Thornton a milling engineer who was born on 25/2/1840 in Bainton in the East Riding of Yorkshire and who lived at Ashleigh in Worksop in 1910.
In 1863 he married Jane, daughter of William Dawson of Besthorpe.

ThorntonJ-4109
John Thornton
[4109]


Thoroton Society
This is the county historical and archaeological society for Nottinghamshire.
It was founded in 1897 and named in honour of Dr Robert Thoroton (1627-1678).

The Society has had a long association with Bromley House Library the detail of which cannot be expounded here.
The Library paid 10s 6d as its subscription on 18/10/1897.

A letter was sent to a Mr Fellows on 26/11/1909 regarding the lease of a room to the Thoroton Society.
A Mr Warren was also mentioned.

The Thoroton Society used the north second-floor room for 70 years (1/4/1910).
The Library Rent Book records their paying £25 per annum plus rates from March 1910 through 1916.

George Fellows was honorary secretary in 1915 [Wright, 1915].

Rev Thomas Thorp, AM.
Subscriber: 3/4/1821 to 4/7/1864.
Address: Wilford.
Committee: 1823, 1824.
The name is also found as Thorpe.
He was elected to the 1833 Committee but did not attend.
Deceased.

Thorpe & Perry
Solicitors
Address: Friar Lane [Wright, 1915].
Registration fees of 2s 6d for share transfers were received on 1/5/1909, 18/7/1911.
See –– Nellie Thorpe.

Mr Thorpe
The name appears twice on the 1856 list.

Henry Roby Thorpe, Esq.
Official receiver in bankruptcy.
Address: 5 Lenton Avenue, The Park.
Subscriber: 5/11/1877 to 12/9/1905.
Share number: 217 (counterfoil signed by him and dated 9/2/1901..
Committee: 1883, 1884, 1897, 1898, 1902.
Book Committee: 1883, 1884, 1886, 1902
Auditor: 1885.
Rates Committee: 5/1/1886.
Improvement Committee: 8/7/1902.
He did not attend any Committee meetings in 1886-87.
The counterfoil for share number 218, dated 2/4/1902, shows ‘Henry Roby Thorpe executor of Roby Liddington Thorpe’.

He was born in Nottingham in 1835 and educated at Standard Hill Academy and at Narborough in Leicestershire.
He was the brother of Roby Liddington Thorpe.

Deceased.

His death was recorded in the Committee minutes of 10/2/1903.

Arthur Lineker, as Librarian, wrote to the Nottingham Daily Guardian on 24/1/1903 to ask that their report on Thorpe’s funeral state that Bromley House had been represented by H.E. Hubbart, President, and John Russell, M.A., Honorary Secretary.

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ThorpeHR-sig-4219
Henry Roby Thorpe
[4050 & 4219]


John Thorpe
Subscriber: 4/6/1849 to 4/1/1858.
Address: Sneinton.

In September 1850 he was written to regarding his lending to a Mr. Collinson (2/9/1850) and in 1851 he signed a requisition to the Committee to reduce the annual subscription from 42s 0d to 30s 0d (17/3/1851).
The share was transferred from Mrs Thorpe.

John Thorpe
Subscriber: 1/4/1856 to 6/10/1873.
The name appears twice on the 1856 list.
He signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867.
The share was transferred to W.B. Thorpe.

John Thorpe
Address: Brantwood, Barrack Lane, The Park; Lenton.
Subscriber: 10/12/1901 to 1916.
Share number: 250 (counterfoil signed by him and dated 16/11/1902).
He bought a book (or books) from the Library for 11s 6d (10/1/1911).
He was a subscriber to Russell’s History (1916).

Mrs Kate Thorpe
Widow.
Address: 15 Pelham Grove, The Park.
Subscriber: 7/6/1910 to 1916.
Share number: 88 (counterfoil dated 28/4/1911).

Mrs Nelly (or Nellie) Thorpe
Widow.
Address: Stowe House, Lichfield.
Subscriber: 11/11/1902 to 12/9/1905.
Share number: 218. Counterfoil 282 for share 218 is dated 14/5/1903 and endorsed ‘ Thorpe & Perry. D.W.C. 18.9.03’.
Her registration fee of 2s 6d was paid on 18/9/1903 by Thorpe & Perry.
The share was passed from Roby Thorpe.

Roby Liddington Thorpe
Solicitor.
Address: The Park.
Subscriber: 4/1/1864 to 11/11/1902.
Share number: 218 The counterfoil, dated 2/4/1902, shows ‘Henry Roby Thorpe executor of Roby Liddington Thorpe’.
He signed the memorial in support of Count Marioni (librarian) in 1867.

He married Poly (Nellie) Mundella daughter of Anthony John Mundella ((1823-1897) and Mary, daughter of William Smith, a warehouseman of Kibworth Beauchamp in Leicestershire.

In 1883 he bought Nether Hall, or Old Manor Farm, in Woodborough , but does not appear to have lived there.
The name is still connected with Thorpe's Cottages, a group of houses at the east end of Woodborough which he had also purchased in 1883.
A bridleway known as Thorpe's Road was once the route from Woodborough to Lambley before the new Lingwood Lane was made at the time of the Enclosure Award.

Roby Liddington Thorpe died in 1900 and his brother Henry Roby Thorpe inherited the estate.
Henry was a bachelor and on his death in 1903, the estate went to Roby's daughter, Dorothea Mary Roby Benson.
She had married Godfrey Rathbone Benson in 1887 and in 1911 he was created Baron Charnwood.
Their son, John Roby Thorpe Benson 2nd Baron Charnwood, seems to have taken over the running of the estate.
He died unmarried on 1 February 1955 aged 53.
[http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/woodboroughheritage/manors/NetherHall.html]

Deceased.
The share was transferred to Miss Nelly Thorpe.

W.R. Thorpe
Subscriber: 6/5/1872 to 3/4/1883
Committee: 1880, 1881.
See –– Michael Browne - rates liability sub-committee - 1885.

William Blankley Thorpe, Esq.
Corn merchant and maltster.
Address: Pelham Crescent; Lenton House, Lenton.
Subscriber: 6/10/1873 to 6/7/1915.
Share number: 219 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).
He signed the memorial regarding the tenure of the office of President in May 1875. (See –– J. Place.
Deceased.
His death was noted at the 1915 General Meeting.

Samuel Thurman
Subscriber: 2/1/1843 to 7/3/1853.
Deceased.

Mr Tidmas
Subscriber: 2/7/1855 to 2/7/1855.
The transfer of a share both to him and from him was minuted at the meeting of 2/7/1855.

The Times Book Club
They provided a copy of the Historian’s History of the World half-bound in Morocco on approval.
The Library agreed to purchase a copy of the cloth bound edition of 25 volumes at 7s 6d each.
The correspondence about this and the return of the approval copy is dated 29/1/1908 and 5/2/1908.
They were paid £8 12s 8d on 18/3/1908.

The Times Library
This was one of the subscription libraries whose charges were investigated by Arthur Lineker in 1914.

John Tindall
Subscriber: 1/5/1820 to 1/4/1825.
He bought an original share for £7 7s 0d.

Mr Tolington
On 10/7/1833 he paid £3 10s 0d for the Standard. (Newsroom Subscription Book 1831-1834)

Henry Tollinton
Subscriber: 4/4/1842 to 2/4/1849.
The share was transferred from Thomas Tollinton to 'his sole executor and devisee'.

Thomas Tollinton or Tollington
Subscriber: 3/3/1823 to 4/4/1842.
He bought an original share for £10 10s 0d.
Deceased.

Captain Sir William Hugh Tomasson, OBE (c.1857-1922)
Chief Constable of Nottinghamshire.
Address: Woodthorpe.
Subscriber: 5/3/1912 to 1916.
Share number: 181 (counterfoil dated 16/4/1912).

Born in Barnby Moor he was educated at Clifton College and served with the Cape Mounted Rifles against Chief Cetewayo in the Zulu War.
He then joined the Nottinghamshire Police Force and through hard work and use of his initiative rose to be Chief Constable.
He received the King’s Police medal and was later an Inspector of Police for the North of England.

He was Honorary Secretary of the Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club for twenty-two years. (Mellors, 1924)

Miss E.A. Tomlin
Subscriber: 5/4/1881 to 14/6/1892.

The Misses Tomlin gave the clock at St Stephen’s church, Sneinton and Miss Marian Tomlin did much good work among the poor. (Mellors, 1914)
The share was transferred from William Tomlin.

Edmond Tomlin
Subscriber: 19/2/1819 to 5/11/1838.

Mrs Frances Anne Tomlin
Subscriber: 1/7/1844 to 27/3/1845.

William Tomlin
Subscriber: 28/3/1817 to 5/4/1881.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).
He was a subscriber for more than 64 years.
The share was transferred to Miss E.A. Tomlin.

In September 1845 he attended a Committee meeting to request permission to remove specimens belonging to the Natural History Society (1/9/1845).
The Share Interest Book shows that he held two Bromley House Building Shares from 1831 to 1849.
The Standfast Ledger records two borrowings between 12/7/1845 and 10/3/1855.
 
In 1851 he signed a requisition to the Committee to reduce the annual subscription from 42s 0d to 30s 0d (17/3/1851), and seconded the motion at the 1851 AGM.

At the 1856 AGM he seconded an amendment (proposed by Richard Enfield) regarding mortgages and debentures which opposed the Committee line and which was defeated.

He also signed the memorial regarding the tenure of the office of President in May 1875. (See –– J. Place)
See –– Richard Enfield - Natural History Society.

Mr Tomlinson
His name appears on the Bill for legal work associated with the purchase of Bromley House (1822).

James Tomlinson
Subscriber: 4/4/1831 to 7/3/1842.
He and John Tomlinson bought a piece of land to the rear of the Library for 9s 6d per square yard (4/2/1822).

The share was transferred to John Tomlinson.

John Tomlinson
Subscriber: 7/3/1842 to 1853.
He and James Tomlinson bought a piece of land to the rear of the Library for 9s 6d per square yard (4/2/1822).

The share was transferred from James Tomlinson. It was then forfeited and not reissued until 6/11/1871.

Clifton Tomson (1775-1828)
Subscriber: 3/4/1821 to 5/5/823.
Artist.

He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

Clifton Tomson was born in Nottingham and baptised at St Mary’s church in February 1775.
His father, William Tomson, was a frame-smith of Castle Gate who married Mary  Blanchard in December 1771.
In 1797 aged 22 Clifton married Grace Brailsford at St Peter’s church and they had nine children:
Marian (1798) Charlotte (1803) John (1809)
Elizabeth (1799) Clifton (1806) James (1810)
Sarah (1801) William (1808) Eliza (1815)

Clifton seems to have started to earn a living as a painter of horses in about 1797.
By August 1806 he was using the Nottingham Journal to advertise an exhibition of portraits of horses at his residence in Park Street (now Friar Lane).
Thomas Barber, junior (1798-1826) and John Rawson Walker (1796-1873) (q.v.) were also residing and working in Park Street.
Barber painted Tomson and at the time of a retrospective exhibition of the works of Barber and Walker this portrait was in the possession of Henry Wallis (see – G. Harry Wallis under Duke of Richmond), sometime director of the Nottingham City Museum.

His purchase of a 10 guinea share in the Library was noted in the Nottingham Journal of June 1821.
The minutes of the Annual Meeting of the Library held on 3 April 1821 had recorded:
Mr. Barber, Mr. Walker and Mr. Tomson have proposed to present the institution with paintings in their respective departments of the arts for the decoration of the library instead of the prices of their shares and the committee have accepted such a proposition.
However, the minutes of 3rd March 1823 read as follows:
Messrs. Barber, Walker and Tomson having been admitted members in consequence of presenting paintings to the library have misunderstood the terms on which they held their shares. Resolved that notice be given to those gentlemen that no arrears of subscription now due shall be expected from them but that in future they would be chargeable with the annual subscription on the same footing as other subscribers and also shall have the right of selling their shares.

It seems likely that Tomson could have afforded the two guinea subscription.
However, it seems that was insulted by the Committee's apparent valuation of his painting at a mere 10 guineas and promptly sold his share to George Green, the mathematician and miller of Sneinton.

Although based in Nottingham Tomson obtained commissions across the Midlands as well as in Yorkshire, the west country and Weymouth.
He frequently visited Doncaster, Nottingham and York racecourses to paint racehorse portraits and the finishes of races.
He painted a number of St Leger winners. Lord Byron’s Newfoundland dog, Boatswain, and his wolf-dog named Lyon were also among his animal portraits.

Tomson died in Nottingham on 6 September 1828 aged 53 and was buried at St Mary's on 9 September.
The Nottingham Journal of 13 September 1828 noted under ‘Deaths’:
On 6th instant, Mr. Clifton Tomson, the celebrated animal portrait painter of this town, aged 53, leaving an orphan family.

His wife, Grace, must have pre-deceased him and the orphan family comprised his five daughters and one remaining son, William. John and James had died in infancy and his eldest son, Clifton, at the age of 18 in 1826.

The Nottingham Journal of Saturday 21 August 1830 records:
On 15th instant, William, son of the late Mr. Clifton Tomson, horse portrait painter of this town, leaving four sisters who were mainly dependent on him for support.

William was also buried at St Mary's on 18 August aged 22.
Thus all four sons had died and four of Tomson’s five young daughters were left without male protection nor, perhaps, with adequate financial provision for their future.

Taken mainly from: Gerald Pendred (1978) A monograph on the life and work of Clifton Tomson (1775-1828) - a Nottingham animal and sporting artist.

Mr Toone
Newsroom subscriber: 1833.

William Henry Toone
Solicitor.
Address: Leicester Road, Loughborough; Bird Hill Cottage, Woodhouse Eaves.
See ––  Count Marioni.

Mr Topham
Address: 'Late of Ripley'.

On 3/6/1850 an obscure minute states that John Brewster was . . . . .
. . . . ‘to use the necessary measures to obtain the return of or to recover the amount ....’.


Rev John Toplis
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 22/11/1816.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

John Toplis
Corporation Rate Collector
Address: District Rent and Rate Offices, Albert Street, Low Pavement. [Post Office, 1876]

He shared this office with William Hall Wayte, John Taylor, William Key and Thomas Kellingley [Post Office, 1876].

In December 1876 he collected £14 5s 5d District rate from the Library (4/12/1876).

H.E. Torbitt
He rented a room on the second floor of Bromley House at £20 per annum from 1906.
He was declared bankrupt and the tenancy expired on 6/1/1908.
The final payment was made on 8/1/1908 by B.S. Wright.

W.H. Torbitt
See –– Parr & Torbitt.

Benjamin Towle
Subscriber: 5/11/1838 to 2/6/1845
See also under John Towle.
Deceased.

John H. Towle
Subscriber: 6/5/1833 to 6/8/1849.
Address: Burrowash.
On 4/6/1838 he was fined for lending to B. Towle.

Miss M.H. Towle
Subscriber: 6/12/1887 to 5/5/1891.
The transfer of a share from Miss Wells to Miss Towle was recorded on 1/3/1887 in the Committee minutes but not confirmed at the 1887 General Meeting.

John Francis Townend, Esq.
Hosiery manufacturer.
Address: 9 Derby Terrace, Park Side, The Park.
Subscriber: 4/6/1877 to 1916.
Share number: 220 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).
He was a subscriber to Russell’s History (1916).

B.S. Townroe
He bought a book (or books) from the Library for: 5s 0d ( 11/1/1908).

Charles Edward Townroe, Esq.
Bank clerk.
Address: 2 Lenton Road, The Park.
Subscriber: 5/11/1889 to 1916.
Share number: 221 (counterfoil dated 11/2/1901).
Committee: 1904, 1905, 1907 to 1912.
He attended General Meetings: 1902, 1903, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1913 (apologies), 1916.
He was one of ten nominations for the 1904 Committee and he was nominated (4/4/1911) and subsequently elected (28/4/1911) as a Trustee.
Finance Committee: 1905, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1912.
Book Committee: 1907, 1909 to 1912.
He retired from the Committee on 4/3/1913.

Minuted book requests:

He bought books from the Library for:
2s 5d 6/12/1907
2s 0d 25/11/1910
2s 0d 11/1/1913
6s 3d 11/12/1908
1s 0d 15/12/1911
2s 9d 20/11/1914
2s 3d 10/12/1909
7s 0d 5/12/1912
3d 4/12/1915

When John Russell missed the 1908 General Meeting through illness he undertook the duties of Honorary Secretary.
He was a subscriber to Russell’s History (1916).

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The signature of
Charles Edward Townroe
[4245]


Charles Travell
Tobacconist and neighbour.
Address: 8 Angel Row, (Lascelles, 1848).

February 1879 saw the start of arguments about wooden pillars supporting a glass roof and encroaching onto Library property (3/2/1879).
An agreement of January 1880 was revisited on 3/9/1895 regarding arrears due.

Although his first name does not appear in the records this must be ‘Mr Travell’.

See –– Pearson: rental agreements - 1880 & 1901.

G.F. Travell
Subscriber: 4/5/1886 to 6/9/1887.

Miss Travis
Subscriber: 19/2/1819 to 19/2/1819.
The transfer of a share from S. Naylor (not listed) was recorded on 19/2/1819, but this was not confirmed at 1819 AGM.
See –– Miss Plumb.

Lords Commissioners of the Treasury
Their Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland - 1624 came to the Library (4/12/1894).

William Trentham
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 29/5/1818.
He was known as 'Junior'.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

William Trentham
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 1/3/1841.
Newsroom subscriber: 1831, 1832, 1833.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).
The Standfast Ledger records three borrowings between 19/12/1834 and 1/1/1835.

Mrs Trochet
Subscriber: 1/3/1824 to 1/8/1825.
The transfer of this share was also minuted on 5/12/1825.

B. Truman
See –– Edgar Beckit Truman.

Becket Truman
Subscriber: 1/4/1851 to 1/6/1874.
Co-opted to the Catalogue Committee on 15/10/1862.
The share was transferred to Miss Mary Agnes Truman.

Dr Edgar Beckit Truman, MD
Address: 9 Watcombe Crescent, Carrington.
Subscriber: 7/8/1876 to 1916.
Share number: 222 (counterfoil dated 2/4/1902).
Committee: 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887, 1889, 1890, 1892, 1893.
Book Committee: 1884, 1889, 1890.
Scrutator: 1887.
He was present at the General Meeting of 1894.
See –– Michael Browne - loan to Library -1884.

Gift:

In 1916 his executors were recorded as being: Thomas Burnie, Bernard Renshaw and B. Truman.

Joseph Truman
Subscriber: 2/7/1860 to 4/12/1865.

Miss Mary Agnes Truman
Subscriber: 1/6/1874 to 1/9/1891.
The share was transferred from Becket Truman, and then later transferred again to Miss S.E. Truman.

P.P. Truman, LLD.
Subscriber: 4/5/1886 to 8/5/1900.
He bought a new share for £40.

At the 1894 General Meeting he proposed a motion, which was carried, that the name of the Duke of Newcastle should be placed in lists in alphabetical order and with the same sized type.

Deceased.

Miss S.E. Truman
Subscriber: 1/9/1891 to 8/4/1902.
The share was transferred from Miss M.A. Truman.
Deceased.

Frederick John Truswell
House furnisher .
Address: 222a Arkwright Street.
He supplied blinds in April 1916 at a cost of £1 8s 6d.

John Tucker, Esq.
Address: Birch House, Old Lenton.
Subscriber: 1/10/1855 to 1916.
In 1916 he had been subscriber for 61 years.
Share number: 223 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).
His death was noted at the 1916 General Meeting.

R.G. (or G.R.) Tucker
Subscriber: 7/11/1842 to 4/2/1867.
The Standfast Ledger records one borrowing on 15/3/1847.

Mr A. Tudor
This name appears in a pencilled note on the incomplete and undated counterfoil number 142 with a pencil insertion of the name ‘Lockwood’.

Mrs Turner
Subscriber: 1/4/1823 to 7/1/1861.
The Standfast Ledger records one borrowing on 8/5/1838.

Charles Turner (1774-1857)
Engraver.
His mezzotint [13 x 9.75 inches; published 1816], after William Arnold, of Mr George Coldham, First Lord Howe is in the Front Reading Room (2006).

Mrs H. Turner

She hired the Library lecture room for
dancing classes
at £10 per annum
and this arrangement was periodically renewed
4/2/1832 7/10/1833 3/2/1834
The Subscriptions Book records her payments
for the use of the Lecture Room
at Bromley House as follows:
14/10/1833 £1 16s 0d for 6 nights
17/4/1834 £5 14s 0d for 19 nights
5/2/1835 £3 0s 0d for 10 nights
29/4/1835 £2 8s 0d for 8 nights
13/4/1836 19s 0d for 3 nights


Mrs Elizabeth Ann Turner
Address: Oxholme, Edwalton.
Subscriber: 1/3/1910 to 1916.
Share number: 150 (counterfoil dated 12/4/1910). A registration fee of 2s 6d was received on 13/4/1910.

She bought books from the Library for:
14s 0d 1/1/1913
15s 0d 17/12/1913
16s 0d 1/1/1915
16s 0d 1/1/1916

She was a subscriber to Russell’s History (1916).

J.H. Turner and Turner & White.
Painters.
Address: 53 Ilkeston Road (Kelly, 1904).
He was (They were) used for plastering, whitewashing and repairs on three occasions from June 1899 to September 1900.

Rev H. Turner
Subscriber: 11/4/1817 to 1/4/1820.
Committee: 1818, 1819. He joined after the 1817 General Meeting.
For some entries the H could be a W.
Auditor: 1819.

In October 1819 a Mr Turner made an offer regarding duplicate copies and this was accepted (4/10/1819).

A Mr Turner gave:
  1. Evelyn: Sylvia (edited by Dr Hunter) ((4/9/1820);
  2. A History of Bristol, 2 vols. (4/9/1820);
  3. The History of the County of Northumberland, 4 vols.(4/9/1820);
  4. a collection of mineralogical specimens from Newcastle-upon-Tyne (4/9/1820).

Samuel Turner
He was a member of the 'Town Class' of the White Lion Book Society in 1788-9.
See –– William Moore.

Thomas Turner
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 1/5/1848.
Newsroom subscriber: 1831.
He signed the Library Rules (1816-1830).

Tom Newsum Turner, JP
Address: Uplands, Eastwood.
Subscriber: 1/10/1890 to 1916.
Share number: 224 (counterfoil dated 2/4/1902).

Sir John Turney, Kt. (b.1838)
Leather manufacturer.
Lord Mayor of Nottingham: 1886-87 and 1887-88.
Address: Springfield, Alexandra Park; Gedling House.
Subscriber: 5/1/1897 to 13/12/1904.
Share number: 225 (counterfoil dated 9/2/1901).

He founded the leather dressing works that stood just north of Trent Bridge.

He was born in Nottingham on 2/1/1839. His education began at a Dame School in Lenton and a time at Lenton National School followed before he spent a short time at Lincoln Grammar School.
He later studied at evening classes at People’s College and learnt mechanical drawing at the Nottingham School of Art.

He served on the corporation of the City of Nottingham for 46 years and worked hard on improvements to the city being chairman of the Works and Ways Committee.

In 1865 he married Helen, daughter of E. Nicholson of Manchester. She died in 1866.
He later married Julie Emma, daughter of Alfred Topham of Calais and they had four sons and five daughters.

He is remembered by a stained glass window in Gedling church. (Mellors, 1924)
See –– Joseph Turney Wood.

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Sir John Turney
[4110]


Stephen Weston Turpin
Accountant, house & estate agent, assessor & collector of income tax, assistant overseer of the parish of Standard Hill & limits of the castle of Nottingham; clerk to the lighting & watching inspectors of the said parish.
Address: office: Castle Buildings, 9 Castle Gate; Residence: Old Radford. [Post Office, 1876].

Payments of rates and land tax through him
are recorded for the Library:
£8 1s 1d 3/2/1879
£8 9s 11d 2/2/1880

There were tax collectors named Turton and Turton operating in Nottingham at this time.

Alfred Ernest Edward Turton
House and Estate agent, tax collector and deputy registrar of marriages.
Address: 29 Sherwood Street [Wright, 1894-95].

There were tax collectors named Turton and Turton operating in Nottingham at this time.

Alfred Ernest Turton
House and estate agent, assessor and collector of taxes for the borough of Nottingham and Basford, and insurance agent.
Address: Eskell Chambers, Beast Market Hill. Home: 40 Goldsmith Street. [White, 1885].

There were tax collectors named Turton and Turton operating in Nottingham at this time.

J. Turton
Between March 1887 and March 1897 he was in receipt of various payments for tax, poor rate and land tax.

Three sums emerge from the records:
From
 To
 Amount
March 1887 November 1894 £2 11s 4d Paid annually
November 1895
£2 18s 8d
February 1889 March 1895 £1 16s 1d Paid annually
December 1890 November 1893 £2 4s 0d Paid twice yearly
On 2/7/1895
£3 6s 0d
On 5/5/1896
£4 8s 0d

There were tax collectors named Turton and Turton operating in Nottingham at this time.

John Tutin
Subscriber: 5/5/1851 to 6/2/1854.
He was known as 'Senior'.

Frederick W. Twells
Subscriber: 5/2/1816 to 1/4/1820.

On 7/2/1820 he was contacted regarding two years subscription and a fine of 11s 6d. and his membership was presumed to have lapsed.
The committee then decided to sell his share if he did not pay (3/10/1820) and on 6/11/1820 it was forfeited.

Tyers
A single payment of £1 0s 0d was made on 6/5/1878 for unspecified goods or services.

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