REMINGTON, Thomas Machell

Thomas Machell Remington (1874-1938), known as Tom, was the cousin of Charles Binyon and was the person responsible for introducing him to Badsey.  Tom’s mother, Alice, was the younger sister of Charles’ father, Frederick.

Tom Remington was born on 16th October 1874 at Claughton, Lancashire, the third of five children of the Reverend Thomas Machell Remington and his wife, Alice Maud (née Binyon).  His mother died when he was ten years old.  Tom grew up at The Rectory, Claughton, and at Aynsome, Broughton, Cartmel, Lancashire.

Tom was educated at Grange-over-Sands and then Sedbergh.  He was staying with his widowed father and sister, Mary A, in the home of his aunt, Dora Binyon, Somers Villa, Leigh, Martley, in 1891.
 
Tom’s father died on 16th May 1900.  It seems that Tom returned home to the Lake District as, at the time of the 1901 census, he was head of the household at Aynsome which comprised his sister, Margaret, and her husband, John Stewart Remington, and his unmarried sister, Lucy.  Tom was described as a farmer and market gardener.

In 1909 he married Eleanor Wearing.  Tom and Eleanor emigrated to New Zealand in the first decade of the 20th century.  He died at Wanganui, New Zealand, in 1938, aged 63.