William Wilton Toulmin[*13212] 1767 - 1820.

Admitted as a solicitor in 1790 and practised in Walbrook, and from 1800 to 1808 south of the Thames in Union St. Suffolk. He also practised at Aldermanbury and Carmarthen St. He married firstly Sarah Anna Maintrue (1770 -1804) and on November 2nd, 1806 married Sarah Wright (1783 - 1863).

He died in 1820 “The victim of financial misfortunes”. His mother lent him £62.2.6 in 1807 and did not let him forget it. (It was mentioned in the codicil to her will).

In the summer of 1819 he and his wife visited Paris. Their daughter Camilla (1812 - 1895), a well known authoress, wrote of this visit,

“because a client of my father’s, who owed him between three and four thousand pounds had fled to France ... My father might have brought home a trifle of money, but I fear he was chiefly laden with promises never to be fulfilled”.

He visited Ireland late in 1820 and “fell victim to conviviality”. After his return, gout attacked a vital organ, and he died on December 12th after a few days’ illness. Camilla married Newton Crossland. Among her many books she wrote “Landmarks of a literary life” (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1893.)

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