Edwin Tooth (1822 - 1858)

Born 28 Aug 1822 in England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Sarah (Lucas) Tooth — married 27 Feb 1844 in Launceston, Tasmania

Descendants

Died 29 Aug 1858 at age 36 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Biography

Edwin Tooth was born in Kent, England.

Edwin Tooth is Notable.

In February 1844 he had married Sarah, daughter of Francis Lucas of Blackheath, Kent; they had three sons and three daughters.

Edwin had pastoral interests outside his partnership with brother Robert until 1855; he had bought J. C. Lloyd's stations and also runs in Gippsland. He was in pastoral partnership with his father, brother Robert, Holt and Thomas de Lacy Moffatt, and was a director in 1855 as well as shareholder in the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Edwin lived in Tasmania for many years, settled in Sydney in 1852 and left the colony in December 1855. In London he lived at 29 Cleveland Square, Hyde Park, and was on the London board of the Bank of New South Wales. He died at Tutbury, Staffordshire, on 29 August 1858 and was buried in St Dunstan's churchyard, Cranbrook, Kent.

Sources

• G. P. Walsh, 'Tooth, Edwin (1822–1858)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/tooth-edwin-4944/text7851, published first in hardcopy 1976, accessed online 7 June 2019.