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Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council ''Tomlinson v Congleton Borough Council'' 003UKHL 47is a 2003 court case in England from the House of Lords regarding the torts of negligence and occupiers' liability (the latter regarding the Occupiers' Liability Act 1984). It was a landmark ...

'', an English court case in

Occupiers' Liability Premises liability (known in some common law jurisdictions as occupiers' liability) is the liability that a landowner or occupier has for certain torts that occur on their land. Scope of the law Premises liability may range from things from "injuri ...

As a surname, Tomlinson may refer to: *

Alys Tomlinson Alys Tomlinson (born 1975) is a British photographer. She has published the books ''Following Broadway'' (2013), ''Ex-Voto'' (2019), ''Lost Summer'' (2020) and ''Gli Isolani (The Islanders)'' (2022). For ''Ex-Voto'' she won the Photographer of the ...

(born 1975), British photographer *

Ambrose Jessup Tomlinson Ambrose Jessup (A.J.) Tomlinson (September 22, 1865 – October 2, 1943), a former Quaker, united with the Holiness Church at Camp Creek in 1903. With his drive, vision, and organizational skills, he was elected the first general overseer of the ...

, founder of the Church of God of Prophecy *

Bob Tomlinson Robert Tomlinson was an English professional footballer who played as an outside forward in the Football League for York City, and in non-League football for Castleford Town and Harrogate Harrogate ( ) is a spa town and the administrative ...

, English professional footballer *Sir Bernard Tomlinson, neuropathologist *

Charles Tomlinson Alfred Charles Tomlinson, CBE (8 January 1927 – 22 August 2015) was an English poet, translator, academic, and illustrator. He was born in Penkhull, and grew up in Basford, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. Life After attending Longton High Sc ...

(1927–2015), British poet and translator *

Charles Tomlinson (scientist) Charles Tomlinson (1808 – 1897), was a scientist who published papers on meteorology and the physical properties of liquids. Biography He studied science under George Birkbeck, the founder of the London Mechanics' Institute. For a while, he ...

Chris Tomlinson Christopher George Tomlinson (born 15 September 1981) is a retired English long jumper. He is the former British long jump record holder and competed at the Olympics of 2004, 2008 and 2012. Career Born in Middlesbrough, Tomlinson began compet ...

, British long jumper *

Claire Tomlinson Claire Janet Tomlinson ({{née Lucas, 14 February 1944 – 12 January 2022) was an English polo player and pony breeder. She was the highest-rated female polo player and coached the English national team she once captained. Biography Tomlinson wa ...

, presenter for Sky Sports * Craig Tomlinson, Jamaican soccer player *

Dalvin Tomlinson Dalvin Tomlinson (born February 28, 1994) is an American football nose tackle for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Alabama. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the second round of ...

, American football player *

David Tomlinson David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson (7 May 1917 – 24 June 2000) was an English stage, film, and television actor and comedian. Having been described as both a leading man and a character actor, he is primarily remembered for his roles as authori ...

, English actor * Denis Tomlinson, Rhodesian cricketer *

Eleanor Tomlinson Eleanor May Tomlinson (born 19 May 1992) is an English actress and singer. She has appeared in films including '' Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging'' (2008), ''Jack the Giant Slayer'' (2013), ''Colette'' (2018) and ''Love Wedding Repeat'' (20 ...

, English actress *

Eric Arthur Tomlinson Eric Arthur Tomlinson (8 January 1931 in Preston, Lancashire – 24 November 2015 in Exeter, Devon) was an English recording engineer, who recorded and mixed the scores to more than 120 movies.

, music recording engineer *

Ernest Tomlinson Ernest Tomlinson MBE (19 September 1924 – 12 June 2015) was an English composer, particularly noted for his light music compositions. He was sometimes credited as 'Alan Perry'. Life and career Tomlinson was born in Rawtenstall, Lancash ...

(1924-2015), English composer * Frank Tomlinson, English footballer *

Fred Tomlinson (singer) Frederick Tomlinson (18 December 1927 – 17 July 2016) was a British singer, songwriter and composer. He founded the Fred Tomlinson Singers, who sang the music featured on ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'', ''The Two Ronnies'' and other British t ...

1927-2016,singer * G. A. Tomlinson, British physicist after whom the

Tomlinson model The Tomlinson model, also known as the Prandtl–Tomlinson Model, is one of the most popular models in nanotribology widely used as the basis for many investigations of frictional mechanisms on the atomic scale. Essentially, a nanotip is dragged by ...

is named *

G. H. Tomlinson G is the seventh letter of the Latin alphabet. G may also refer to: Places * Gabon, international license plate code G * Glasgow, UK postal code G * Eastern Quebec, Canadian postal prefix G * Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne, Australia, g ...

, Canadian inventor of the

chemical pulp Pulp is a lignocellulosic fibrous material prepared by chemically or mechanically separating cellulose fibers from wood, fiber crops, waste paper, or rags. Mixed with water and other chemical or plant-based additives, pulp is the major raw mater ...

process

recovery boiler Recovery boiler is the part of kraft process of pulping where chemicals for white liquor are recovered and reformed from black liquor, which contains lignin from previously processed wood. The black liquor is burned, generating heat, which is usual ...

George Tomlinson George Tomlinson (21 March 1890 – 22 September 1952) was a British Labour Party politician. Biography George Tomlinson was born at 55 Fielding Street in Rishton, Lancashire, the son of John Tomlinson, a cotton weaver, and his wife Alice, né ...

(1890-1952), British Labour politician, Member of Parliament, Minister of Works and Minister of Education *

George Tomlinson (bishop) George Tomlinson (12 March 1794 – 6 February 1863) was an English cleric, the Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe, Bishop of Gibraltar from 1842 to 1863. Biography Tomlinson was born in Lancashire, the son of John Tomlinson. He was first ...

, (1794–1863) an English cleric who served as Anglican Bishop of Gibraltar *

Gerald Tomlinson Gerald Arthur Tomlinson (January 24, 1933 – June 24, 2006) was a crime writer and editor. He wrote about sports, crime and New Jersey topis. Over twenty-five of his stories appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's ...

, New Jersey author *

Gideon Tomlinson Gideon Tomlinson (December 31, 1780 – October 8, 1854) was a United States senator, United States Representative, and the 25th Governor for the state of Connecticut. Biography Born in Stratford, Tomlinson completed preparatory studies and ...

, of the Tomlinson Bridge of Fair Haven * Graeme Tomlinson, English footballer * Harold Tomlinson, British architect * Henry Major Tomlinson (1873–1958), a British writer and journalist *

Ian Tomlinson Ian Tomlinson (7 February 1962 – 1 April 2009) was a newspaper vendor who collapsed and died in the City of London after being struck by a police officer during the 2009 G-20 summit protests. After an inquest jury returned a verdict of ...

, a British newspaper vendor who died in central London after being beaten by police during the 2009 G-20 protests * Ian Tomlinson (athlete), Australian athlete *

Ike Tomlinson James A. "Ike" Tomlinson (November 17, 1910 – March 9, 2000) was an American football, basketball, and baseball coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head baseball coach at Arkansas State University from 1948 to 1976, comp ...

(1910–2000), head coach of the Arkansas State college football program * Isaac Tomlinson (1880–1970), English footballer with Chesterfield, Southampton and Portsmouth *

James Tomlinson James Andrew Tomlinson (born 12 June 1982) is an English former cricketer. A left-arm medium pace bowler, capable of producing swing at a brisk pace, Tomlinson first appeared in senior cricket for the Hampshire Cricket Board in List A cricket i ...

, English cricketer *

Jane Tomlinson Jane Emily Tomlinson, (née Goward; 21 February 1964 – 3 September 2007) was an amateur English athlete who raised £1.85 million for charity by completing a series of athletic challenges, despite suffering from terminal cancer. Having ...

, British campaigner and fund raiser for cancer charities *

Jeff Tomlinson Jeffrey "Jeff" Tomlinson (born April 23, 1970) is a Canadian-German professional ice hockey coach. He is currently the head coach of the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers in the National League (NL). Playing career Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Tomlinson p ...

, Canadian-German ice hockey coach * Jimmy Tomlinson, English footballer * John Tomlinson **

John Tomlinson (educationalist) John Race Godfrey Tomlinson FCP (24 April 1932 – 6 August 2005) was a British educationalist. After serving as Director of Education for Cheshire from 1972 to 1984, he was Professor of Education at the University of Warwick from 1985 to 19 ...

(1932–2005), British educationalist **

John Tomlinson (bass) Sir John Rowland Tomlinson (born 22 September 1946) is an English Bass (voice type), bass. Tomlinson was born in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England. He trained as a civil engineer at Manchester University before deciding on a career in opera a ...

(born 1946), English opera singer **

John Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson John Edward Tomlinson, Baron Tomlinson (born 1 August 1939), is a British Labour Co-operative politician. He is currently a life peer in the House of Lords, and was previously a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979, and a Member of the Europ ...

(born 1939), Lord Tomlinson of Walsall, former MP and MEP **

John Tomlinson (comics) John Tomlinson is a British comic book writer and editor known for his work on various '' 2000 AD'' strips. He has occasionally been credited as Sonny Steelgrave. Biography Tomlinson worked at Marvel UK in the early 1990s and helped nurture var ...

, comics writer for ''2000 AD'' *

Kelby Tomlinson Kelby Aaron Tomlinson (born June 16, 1990) is an American former professional baseball utility player. He played college baseball at Texas Tech and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, by whom he was drafted in 2011 ...

, baseball player for The San Francisco Giants *

Kerry-Anne Tomlinson Kerry-Anne Tomlinson (born 19 January 1990) is a New Zealand cricketer who currently plays for Central Districts. Tomlinson was born in Gisborne and lives in Hamilton. She has played in four women's One Day International matches for the Nethe ...

(born 1990), New Zealand cricketer * Kenneth Tomlinson, American government official *

LaDainian Tomlinson LaDainian Tarshane Tomlinson (born June 23, 1979) is a former American football running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons. After a successful college career with the TCU Horned Frogs, the San Diego Chargers se ...

, American football player *

Laken Tomlinson Laken Tomlinson (born February 9, 1992) is an American football offensive guard for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Duke. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions in the first round of the 2015 NF ...

, American football player *

Louis Tomlinson Louis William Tomlinson (; born Louis Troy Austin; 24 December 1991) is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to fame as a member of the boy band One Direction. Tomlinson began his career appearing in television dramas before he auditioned ...

(born 1991), member of the boy band One Direction *

LeShay Tomlinson LeShay Tomlinson, also known as Leshay Tomlinson and Leshay N. Tomlinson, is an American actress, best known for her role as Cathy in R. Kelly's hip hopera, ''Trapped in the Closet''. Cathy is noteworthy as the woman whose tryst with Kelly's cha ...

, American actress *

Mel Tomlinson Mel Alexander Tomlinson (January 3, 1954 – February 5, 2019) was an American dancer and choreographer. At the time of his debut with the New York City Ballet in 1981, he was the only African-American dancer in the company. Ballet choreographer ...

, American dancer and choreographer *

Michael Tomlinson Michael James Tomlinson-Mynors (born 1 October 1977) is a British politician serving as Solicitor General for England and Wales since September 2022. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from July to September 2022. He has been the M ...

, British Conservative Party politician, MP for Mid Dorset and North Poole since 2015 * Murphy Tomlinson, American curler *

Paul Tomlinson Paul Tomlinson (born 4 February 1965) is an English former footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Sheffield United, Birmingham City (on loan) and Bradford City. Bradford City signed Tomlinson for a club record £47,500 from Sheffield United ...

, English footballer * P. B. Tomlinson, British botanist * Pride Tomlinson (1890–1967), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court *

Ray Tomlinson Raymond Samuel Tomlinson (April 23, 1941 – March 5, 2016) was an American computer programmer who implemented the first email program on the ARPANET system, the precursor to the Internet, in 1971; It was the first system able to send mail be ...

(1941-2016), American inventor, originator of the '@' separator used in e-mail addressing * Reg Tomlinson (1914–1971), English footballer with Grimsby and Southampton *

Richard Tomlinson Richard John Charles Tomlinson (born 13 January 1963) is a former officer of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). He argued that he was subjected to unfair dismissal from MI6 in 1995, and attempted to take his former employer to a ...

, former British MI6 officer * Richard Allan Tomlinson (born 1932), British archaeologist * Richard H. Tomlinson, Canadian philanthropist *

Ricky Tomlinson Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson (born 26 September 1939) is an English actor. He is best known for his television roles as Bobby Grant in ''Brookside'', DCI Charlie Wise in '' Cracker'' and Jim Royle in ''The Royle Family'', and playing the titular char ...

, British actor *

Roger Tomlinson Roger F. Tomlinson, (17 November 1933 – 7 February 2014) was an English-Canadian geographer and the primary originator of modern geographic information systems (GIS), and has been acknowledged as the "father of GIS." Biography Dr. Tomlinson ...

, originator of the Geographic Information Systems *

Sandra Tomlinson Sandra Tomlinson (born c. 1947) is a former Australian women's basketball player. Biography Tomlinson played for the Australia women's national basketball team during the 1970s and competed for Australia at the 1971 World Championship held ...

(born 1947), Australian basketball player *

Stuart Tomlinson Stuart Charles Tomlinson (born 22 May 1985) is an English former professional wrestler and professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. As a footballer, Tomlinson progressed from the Crewe Alexandra youth team to turn professional in 200 ...

(born 1985), English footballer *

Taylor Tomlinson Taylor Elyse Tomlinson is an American comedian. She has released two Netflix stand-up specials called ''Quarter-Life Crisis'' (2020) and ''Look At You'' (2022). Early life Taylor Elyse Tomlinson was born in Orange County, California. She was rai ...

(born 1993), comedian *

Teresa Tomlinson Teresa Pike Tomlinson (born February 19, 1965) is an Americans, American politician and attorney. A member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party, she was elected and served as the 69th List of mayors of Columbus, Georgia, May ...

(born 1965), politician from Georgia *

Theresa Tomlinson Theresa Tomlinson (born 1946 in Crawley, Sussex) is an English writer for children, mainly of historical fiction. She advocates giving children "the opportunity to consider many different role models and ways of life, so that they can make up th ...

(or Thomlinson), children's author *

Tommy Tomlinson Robert M. Tomlinson (born December 4, 1945) is an American politician serving as a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, who represented the 6th District from 1995 to 2022. Biography Tomlinson was previously a member of the Pennsylvania H ...

, Pennsylvania State Senator * Tommy Tomlinson (footballer), English footballer *

Trent Tomlinson Trent Tomlinson (born July 3, 1975) is an American country music artist. After several failed attempts at finding a record deal, Tomlinson was signed to Lyric Street Records in 2005, with his debut album ''Country Is My Rock'', released in earl ...

, American country music singer-songwriter Tomlinson as a first name: * Tomlinson Fort (disambiguation), various people *

Tomlinson Holman Tomlinson M. Holman (born 1946) is an American film theorist, audio engineer, and inventor of film technologies, notably the Lucasfilm's THX sound system. He developed the world's first 10.2 sound system.Truta, Filip Truta (May 5, 2011)"Apple Hir ...

, American film theorist and educator

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