Personality
He was an able administrator to his diocese, conducting eleven visitations during his thirty three years tenure.
Though to the inferior clergy there was unquestionably something over-awing in his presence, arising from their conscientiousness of his superior attainments, yet it was impossible not to admire the courtliness of his manners and the benevolence of his sentiments
— The Gentleman's Magazine, 1st ser., 98/1 (1828), 204)
Though he appeared somewhat aloof in public, Tomline was a devoted family man and genial enough given the right company. From 1806, he was conservative as to his attitudes to church and state but was well respected by someone of as different an outlook as Samuel Parr.
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