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James Webbe Tobin (1767–1814) was an English abolitionist, the son of a plantation owner on Nevis. He was a political radical, and friend of leading literary men.^[1]

Life

He was the eldest son of James Tobin of Bristol and his first wife Elizabeth Webbe; George Tobin and John Tobin were his brothers.^[1] His father was in business with John Pretor Pinney, from 1783.^[2]

Tobin was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Wadham College, Oxford, where he matriculated in 1787, and graduated B.A. in 1792.^[1]^[3] From 1795, until his brother John's death in 1804, they lived together in London.^[4]

In the 1790s Tobin befriended Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth;^[5] Wordsworth knew, through Basil Montagu and Francis Wrangham, the sons of John Pretor Pinney, and may have met Tobin through Montagu, or the Pinneys.^[1]^[6] Tobin brought Tom Wedgewood to meet Coleridge and Wordsworth in September 1797; Wedgwood later became Coleridge's patron.^[7]^[8] In letters of 1798, Wordsworth announced to Tobin, then James Losh, his major poetic project under the working title The Recluse.^[9]

Tobin had a degenerative eye condition, and at this period he was only partially sighted, ruling out a career.^[10] During 1799 he took part in the nitrous oxide experiments of Humphry Davy.^[11] He was an observer when Davy experimented with other inhalations.^[12]

From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.^[1] He took a leading part in the cruelty case brought in 1810 against the plantation owner Edward Huggins; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.^[13] Huggins was acquitted; Tobin made his views known, writing in particular to Hugh Elliot, the Governor of the Leeward Islands, claiming that the jury was packed.^[1]^[14] The Christian Observer noted that Tobin's blindness meant he could not be challenged to a duel for his stand.^[15] James Stephen wrote that others who backed him did not escape feuds.^[16]

Works

Tobin contributed to The Annual Anthology edited by Robert Southey, and edited its third volume (1802).^[17]^[18] In 1812 he wrote a Reply to the pamphlet A plain statement of the motives which gave rise to the public punishment of several negroes (1811), by Thomas John Cottle, son-in-law of Edward Huggins.^[19]

Family

Tobin married Jane Mallet or Mullett (1784–1837) in 1807.^[1]^[20]^[21] She was the daughter of Thomas Mullett (1745–1814), a Bristol stationer connected by marriage to Caleb Evans, a Particular Baptist minister in Bristol.^[22] They had at least four children, including the eldest son John James, born 1808/9, the friend of Humphry Davy.^[1]^[23]

After her husband's death, Jane Tobin and her family returned to England.^[24]

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Small, David. "Tobin, James Webbe". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58446. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Morgan, Kenneth. "Pinney, John Pretor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50514. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212
^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1980). The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Abbt to Byfield. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-691-09879-1.
^ "Tobin, James Webbe (1767–1814), Romantic Circles". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
^ Stephen Charles Gill (1 June 1989). William Wordsworth: a life. Clarendon Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-19-812828-1.
^ Ayumi Mishiro, William Wordsworth and Education: 1791–1802 at p. 134
^ Levere, Trevor H. "Wedgwood, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28967. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Stephen Charles Gill (1 June 1989). William Wordsworth: a life. Clarendon Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-19-812828-1.
^ Juliet Barker (13 October 2009). Wordsworth: A Life. HarperCollins. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-06-185021-9.
^ Sir Humphry Davy (1839). The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration. Smith, Elder and Company. pp. 295–7.
^ June Z. Fullmer (2000). Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. American Philosophical Society. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-0-87169-237-5.
^ Small, David. "Huggins, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53032. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Thomas Southey (1827). Chronological History of the West Indies. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green. p. 498.
^ The Christian Observer. Hatchard and Company. 1812. p. 434.
^ James Stephen (30 September 2010). The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern. Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-108-02082-4.
^ Curry, Kenneth (1948). "The Contributors to "The Annual Anthology"". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 42 (1): 50–65. ISSN 0006-128X.
^ Robert Southey (1829). The Poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume. A. and W. Galignani. p. ix note 1.
^ "Fanny Cottle (née Huggins), Summary of Individual, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 13 May 2016.
^ T. Whelan (2 February 2016). Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-137-34361-1.
^ George Manners; William Jerdan (1808). Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor. S. Tipper. p. 103.
^ Timothy D. Whelan (2009). Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845. Mercer University Press. p. 423. ISBN 978-0-88146-144-2.
^ Trevor Shaw; Alenka Čuk (1 June 2015). Slovene Karst and Caves in the Past. Založba ZRC. p. 401. ISBN 978-961-254-740-0.
^ Whelan, Timothy (2012). "West Country Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840". The Wordsworth Circle. 43 (1): 44–55. ISSN 0043-8006.

[ODNB-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Small, David. "Tobin, James Webbe". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58446. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Morgan, Kenneth. "Pinney, John Pretor". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50514. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[3] s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212

[4] Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1980). The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Abbt to Byfield. Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 978-0-691-09879-1.

[5] "Tobin, James Webbe (1767–1814), Romantic Circles". Retrieved 13 May 2016.

[6] Stephen Charles Gill (1 June 1989). William Wordsworth: a life. Clarendon Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-19-812828-1.

[7] Ayumi Mishiro, William Wordsworth and Education: 1791–1802 at p. 134

[8] Levere, Trevor H. "Wedgwood, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28967. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[9] Stephen Charles Gill (1 June 1989). William Wordsworth: a life. Clarendon Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-19-812828-1.

[10] Juliet Barker (13 October 2009). Wordsworth: A Life. HarperCollins. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-06-185021-9.

[11] Sir Humphry Davy (1839). The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration. Smith, Elder and Company. pp. 295–7.

[12] June Z. Fullmer (2000). Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist. American Philosophical Society. pp. 259–. ISBN 978-0-87169-237-5.

[13] Small, David. "Huggins, Edward". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/53032. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[14] Thomas Southey (1827). Chronological History of the West Indies. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green. p. 498.

[15] The Christian Observer. Hatchard and Company. 1812. p. 434.

[16] James Stephen (30 September 2010). The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern. Cambridge University Press. p. 118. ISBN 978-1-108-02082-4.

[17] Curry, Kenneth (1948). "The Contributors to "The Annual Anthology"". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 42 (1): 50–65. ISSN 0006-128X.

[18] Robert Southey (1829). The Poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume. A. and W. Galignani. p. ix note 1.

[19] "Fanny Cottle (née Huggins), Summary of Individual, Legacies of British Slave-ownership". Retrieved 13 May 2016.

[20] T. Whelan (2 February 2016). Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840. Palgrave Macmillan US. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-137-34361-1.

[21] George Manners; William Jerdan (1808). Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor. S. Tipper. p. 103.

[22] Timothy D. Whelan (2009). Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845. Mercer University Press. p. 423. ISBN 978-0-88146-144-2.

[23] Trevor Shaw; Alenka Čuk (1 June 2015). Slovene Karst and Caves in the Past. Založba ZRC. p. 401. ISBN 978-961-254-740-0.

[24] Whelan, Timothy (2012). "West Country Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840". The Wordsworth Circle. 43 (1): 44–55. ISSN 0043-8006.

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 '''James Webbe Tobin''' (1767–1814) was an English abolitionist, the son of a plantation owner on [[Nevis]]. He was a political radical, and friend of leading literary men.<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|id=58446|first=David|last=Small|title=Tobin, James Webbe}}</ref>
 ==Life==
-He was the eldest son of [[James Webbe (planter)|James Webbe]] of [[Bristol]] and his first wife Elizabeth Webbe; [[George Webbe (Royal Navy officer)|George Webbe]] and [[John Tobin (dramatist)|John Tobin]] were his brothers.<ref name="ODNB"/> His father was in business with [[John Pretor Pinney]], from 1783.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=50514|first=Kenneth|last=Morgan|title=Pinney, John Pretor}}</ref>
+He was the eldest son of [[James Tobin (planter)|James Tobin]] of [[Bristol]] and his first wife Elizabeth Webbe; [[George Tobin (Royal Navy officer)|George Tobin]] and [[John Tobin (dramatist)|John Tobin]] were his brothers.<ref name="ODNB"/> His father was in business with [[John Pretor Pinney]], from 1783.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=50514|first=Kenneth|last=Morgan|title=Pinney, John Pretor}}</ref>
-Tobin was educated at [[King Edward VI School, Southampton]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]], where he matriculated in 1787, and graduated B.A. in 1792.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>[[s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212]]</ref> From 1795, until his brother John's death in 1804, they lived together in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|title=The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Abbt to Byfield|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=v7bpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA89|year=1980|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-691-09879-1|page=89}}</ref>
+Tobin was educated at [[King Edward VI School, Southampton]] and [[Wadham College, Oxford]], where he matriculated in 1787, and graduated B.A. in 1792.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>[[s:Page:Alumni Oxoniensis (1715-1886) volume 4.djvu/212]]</ref> From 1795, until his brother John's death in 1804, they lived together in London.<ref>{{cite book|author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge|title=The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Abbt to Byfield|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v7bpAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA89|year=1980|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-691-09879-1|page=89}}</ref>
-In the 1790s Tobin befriended [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rc.umd.edu/node/105346|title=''Tobin, James Webbe''  (1767–1814), Romantic Circles|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> Wordsworth knew, through [[Basil Montagu]] and [[Francis Wrangham]], the sons of John Pretor Pinney, and may have met Tobin through Montagu, or the Pinneys.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Charles Gill|title=William Wordsworth: a life|date=1 June 1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812828-1|page=92}}</ref> In letters of 1798, Wordsworth announced to Tobin, then [[James Losh]], his major poetic project under the working title ''The Recluse''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Charles Gill|title=William Wordsworth: a life|date=1 June 1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812828-1|page=144}}</ref>
+In the 1790s Tobin befriended [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] and [[William Wordsworth]];<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rc.umd.edu/node/105346|title=''Tobin, James Webbe'' (1767–1814), Romantic Circles|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref> Wordsworth knew, through [[Basil Montagu]] and [[Francis Wrangham]], the sons of John Pretor Pinney, and may have met Tobin through Montagu, or the Pinneys.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Charles Gill|title=William Wordsworth: a life|date=1 June 1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812828-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/williamwordswort00g55/page/92 92]|url=https://archive.org/details/williamwordswort00g55/page/92}}</ref> Tobin brought [[Thomas Wedgwood (photographer)|Tom Wedgewood]] to meet Coleridge and Wordsworth in September 1797; Wedgwood later became Coleridge's patron.<ref>[http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/files/34498065/392977.pdf Ayumi Mishiro, ''William Wordsworth and Education: 1791–1802''] at p. 134</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=28967|first=Trevor H.|last=Levere|title=Wedgwood, Thomas}}</ref> In letters of 1798, Wordsworth announced to Tobin, then [[James Losh]], his major poetic project under the working title ''The Recluse''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Stephen Charles Gill|title=William Wordsworth: a life|date=1 June 1989|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-812828-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/williamwordswort00g55/page/144 144]|url=https://archive.org/details/williamwordswort00g55/page/144}}</ref>
-Tobin had a degenerative eye condition, and at this period he was only partially sighted, ruling out a career.<ref>{{cite book|author=Juliet Barker|title=Wordsworth: A Life|date=13 October 2009|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-185021-9|page=118}}</ref> During 1799 he took part in the [[nitrous oxide]] experiments of [[Humphry Davy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Humphry Davy|title=The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0psEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA295|year=1839|publisher=Smith, Elder and Company|pages=295–7}}</ref>
+Tobin had a degenerative eye condition, and at this period he was only partially sighted, ruling out a career.<ref>{{cite book|author=Juliet Barker|title=Wordsworth: A Life|date=13 October 2009|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=978-0-06-185021-9|page=118}}</ref> During 1799 he took part in the [[nitrous oxide]] experiments of [[Humphry Davy]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Humphry Davy|title=The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Researches, chemical and philosophical, chiefly concerning nitrous oxide ... and its respiration|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0psEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA295|year=1839|publisher=Smith, Elder and Company|pages=295–7}}</ref> He was an observer when Davy experimented with other inhalations.<ref>{{cite book|author=June Z. Fullmer|title=Young Humphry Davy: The Making of an Experimental Chemist|url=https://archive.org/details/younghumphrydavy0000full|url-access=registration|year=2000|publisher=American Philosophical Society|isbn=978-0-87169-237-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/younghumphrydavy0000full/page/259 259]–}}</ref>
-From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.<ref name="ODNB"/> He took a leading part in the cruelty case brought in 1810 against the plantation owner [[Edward Huggins]]; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=53032|first=David|last=Small|title=Huggins, Edward}}</ref> Huggins was acquitted; Tobin made his views known, writing in particular to the [[Governor of Nevis]] claiming that the jury was packed.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Andrew Knapp|author2=William Baldwin|title=The New Newgate Calendar|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0O5fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA268|date=1811*|publisher=J. and J. Cundee|pages=268–}}</ref>The ''Christian Observer'' noted that Tobin's blindness meant he could not be challenged to a duel for his stand.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Christian Observer|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=mNZGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA434|year=1812|publisher=Hatchard and Company|page=434}}</ref> [[James Stephen (British politician)|James Stephen]] wrote that others who backed him did not escape feuds.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Stephen|title=The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HYPgCD-qsUEC&pg=PA118|date=30 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02082-4|page=118}}</ref>
+From 1807 Tobin and his family were on Nevis.<ref name="ODNB"/> He took a leading part in the cruelty case brought in 1810 against the plantation owner [[Edward Huggins]]; Huggins had bought the Montravers estate on Nevis from the Pretor Pinney family in 1808.<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=53032|first=David|last=Small|title=Huggins, Edward}}</ref> Huggins was acquitted; Tobin made his views known, writing in particular to [[Hugh Elliot]], the [[Governor of the Leeward Islands]], claiming that the jury was packed.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Southey|title=Chronological History of the West Indies|url=https://archive.org/details/chronologicalhis03sout|year=1827|publisher=Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green|page=[https://archive.org/details/chronologicalhis03sout/page/498 498]}}</ref> The ''Christian Observer'' noted that Tobin's blindness meant he could not be challenged to a duel for his stand.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Christian Observer|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mNZGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA434|year=1812|publisher=Hatchard and Company|page=434}}</ref> [[James Stephen (British politician)|James Stephen]] wrote that others who backed him did not escape feuds.<ref>{{cite book|author=James Stephen|title=The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated: As it Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared with the Slavery of Other Countries, Antient and Modern|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HYPgCD-qsUEC&pg=PA118|date=30 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-02082-4|page=118}}</ref>
 ==Works==
-Tobin contributed to ''The Annual Anthology'' edited by [[Robert Southey]]. In 1812 he wrote a ''Reply'' to the pamphlet ''A plain statement of the motives which gave rise to the public punishment of several negroes'' (1811), by [[Thomas John Cottle]], son-in-law of Edward Huggins.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43875|title=''Fanny Cottle (née Huggins)'', Summary of Individual, ''Legacies of British Slave-ownership''|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>
+Tobin contributed to ''The Annual Anthology'' edited by [[Robert Southey]], and edited its third volume (1802).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Curry |first=Kenneth |date=1948 |title=The Contributors to "The Annual Anthology" |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24298400 |journal=The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=50–65 |issn=0006-128X}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Southey|title=The Poetical works of Robert Southey: complete in one volume|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rCNXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR9|year=1829|publisher=A. and W. Galignani|page=ix note 1}}</ref> In 1812 he wrote a ''Reply'' to the pamphlet ''A plain statement of the motives which gave rise to the public punishment of several negroes'' (1811), by [[Thomas John Cottle]], son-in-law of Edward Huggins.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43875|title=''Fanny Cottle (née Huggins)'', Summary of Individual, ''Legacies of British Slave-ownership''|accessdate=13 May 2016}}</ref>
 ==Family==
-Tobin married Jane Mallet or Mullett (1784–1837) in 1807.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=T. Whelan|title=Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NJQMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT225|date=2 February 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-1-137-34361-1|page=225}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=George Manners|author2=William Jerdan|title=Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=_MRHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103|year=1808|publisher=S. Tipper|page=103}}</ref> She was the daughter of Thomas Mullett (1745–1814), a Bristol stationer connected by marriage to [[Caleb Evans (minister)|Caleb Evans]], a Particular Baptist minister in Bristol.<ref>{{cite book|author=Timothy D. Whelan|title=Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=pwd5GuvnedgC&pg=PA423|year=2009|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-88146-144-2|page=423}}</ref> They had at least four children.<ref name="ODNB"/>
+Tobin married Jane Mallet or Mullett (1784–1837) in 1807.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author=T. Whelan|title=Other British Voices: Women, Poetry, and Religion, 1766-1840|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NJQMCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT225|date=2 February 2016|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|isbn=978-1-137-34361-1|page=225}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=George Manners|author2=William Jerdan|title=Satirist: Or Monthly Meteor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_MRHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA103|year=1808|publisher=S. Tipper|page=103}}</ref> She was the daughter of [[Thomas Mullett]] (1745–1814), a Bristol stationer connected by marriage to [[Caleb Evans (minister)|Caleb Evans]], a Particular Baptist minister in Bristol.<ref>{{cite book|author=Timothy D. Whelan|title=Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pwd5GuvnedgC&pg=PA423|year=2009|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-88146-144-2|page=423}}</ref> They had at least four children, including the eldest son John James, born 1808/9, the friend of Humphry Davy.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref>{{cite book|author1=Trevor Shaw|author2=Alenka Čuk|title=Slovene Karst and Caves in the Past|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7a6TCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA401|date=1 June 2015|publisher=Založba ZRC|isbn=978-961-254-740-0|page=401}}</ref>
+After her husband's death, Jane Tobin and her family returned to England.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Whelan |first=Timothy |date=2012 |title=West Country Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24045515 |journal=The Wordsworth Circle |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=44–55 |issn=0043-8006}}</ref>
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