Samuel Toller

Sir Samuel Toller, Kt, K.C., (1764–1821) was an English advocate-general of Madras and legal writer.

Life 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.

Works Toller was the author of two legal works:

Of his four daughters:

the eldest, Maria, married in 1817 the Rev. William Malkin the second, Caroline, married in 1818 Thomas Gellibrand, Sheriff of Madras. The marriage took place in St. George's Church, Choultry Plain. Gellibrand died on 26 June 1824, aged 31. Caroline returned to the United Kingdom, on the Lord Hungerford, with two children, sailing in 1825. She married again, dying on 16 November 1875 the widow of William Foy of Stoke Newington. 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.

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

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. At this period, from December 1850 to April 1852, he was headmaster of the school at Cavendish, Suffolk. In 1852 he was at Ballingdon.

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