Thornton, Thomas, 1751 or 1752-1823
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Thornton, Thomas, 1751 or 2-1823
Thornton, Thomas, 1757-1823
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found: Paris: a woman cooking chestnuts in a flat pan over a small brazier. Coloured aquatint with etching, 1805:note (Col. Thomas Thornton, A sporting tour through France, London 1806, vol. 1, pl. 48)
found: Iris M. Middleton, "Thornton, Thomas (1751/2-1823)", Oxford dictionary of national biography, 2004:(Thornton, Thomas (1751/2-1823), sportsman, b. London ...his book A sporting tour through the northern parts of England and great parts of the highlands of Scotland (1804) ... was probably ghost-written by a Revd Martyn ... d. Paris 10 Mar. 1823)
found: The memorial of Thomas Thornton, Esquire, of Thornville Royal, Lieutenant-Colonel of the West-York Regiment of Militia, [1794](Thomas Thornton; Lieutenant-Colonel of the West-York Regiment of Militia)
found: Oxford dictionary of national biography website, July 23, 2019(Thornton, Thomas (1751/2-1823); sportsman; born in London; active in hawking and falconry; appointed colonel of the West Yorkshire militia but was forced to resign after a court martial in 1795; later styled himself marquis de Pont and prince de Chambourd)
found: OCLC, 26 Apr. 2007:(hdg.: Thornton, Thomas, 1757-1823; usage: Colonel T. Thornton)
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2007-04-26: new
2019-07-24: revised
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