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.^[1]

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 by H.R.H. The Prince Regent on 9 Apr 1812 at Carlton House, and died in India on his way to Bangalore on 19 November 1821.^[2]

Toller was the author of two legal works:^[2]

• 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, with whom he had a daughter.^[2] After his wife's death, he married Charlotte Miller, who died in India in 1821; the couple produced six children.^[3]

Of his four daughters:

• the eldest, Maria, married in 1817 the Rev. William Malkin^[4]
• the second, Caroline, married in 1818 Thomas Gellibrand, Sheriff of Madras.^[5][6] The marriage took place in St. George's Church, Choultry Plain.^[7] Gellibrand died on 26 June 1824, aged 31.^[8] Caroline returned to the United Kingdom, on the Lord Hungerford, with two children, sailing in 1825.^[9] She married again, dying on 16 November 1875 the widow of William Foy of Stoke Newington.^[10][11]
• the third, Harriet, married in 1825 General George Whitlock (died 1867)
• the fourth, Charlotte, married Lieutenant William Edward Brooshooft, 35th Madras Native Infantry, in 1824.

Toller died intestate. Through the law firm Brundrett & Spinks, his estate was paid to sons Edward, Thomas and Frederick.^[12][13]

Frederick Toller

Frederick Toller entered St Bees Theological College in 1834;^[14] and was ordained priest by Charles Longley, the Bishop of Ripon, in 1838.^[15] He was parish priest in a number of parishes on both sides of the Pennines. He was perpetual curate at Mytholmroyd in 1837.^[16] He was carrying out baptisms in Bury, Lancashire in 1837;^[17] and from 1837 to 1840 he was vicar of Hebden Bridge.^[18] In 1841 he was the incumbent at Crosscrake chapel.^[19] He applied for financial support to re-endow St Laurence's Church, Morland in 1844.^[20] He carried out baptisms in Thornton-le-Fylde in 1845–6.^[21]

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.^[22] At this period, from December 1850 to April 1852, he was headmaster of the school at Cavendish, Suffolk.^[23] In 1852 he was at Ballingdon.^[24]

By 1854 Toller was in the Midlands, at Stone, Staffordshire in 1854.^[25] From there, that year, he published an edition of Phaedrus, for school use, translated into English verse.^[26] In 1859, when he was curate of St Andrew's Church, Bordesley, a son Ludovic Thomas died.^[27] His wife Ann died at Winslow, Buckinghamshire in 1863, aged 39.^[28] Toller died at Datchworth in 1864, aged 57. He had been curate at Hanley, Staffordshire.^[29]