 Tomline Road in Ipswich which runs parallel to the railway line is named after him.He died, unmarried, from a stroke after a long illness at his London home, Number 1 Carlton House Terrace on the 25 August 1889, aged 76.After a funeral service at St Martin's in the Fields on 29 August, his body was cremated at Woking Crematorium and his ashes sent to London.