THORNTON, BONNELL, son of John Thornton, Maiden Lane, London, apothecary, and Rebecca Burton, St. Andrew’s, Holborn; bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 28 Sep 1725; adm. (aged 10) Jun 1736; KS 1739; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1743, matr. 1 Jun 1743, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1743 - void 25 Jun 1760; BA 1747; MA 1750; MB 1754; contributor to The Student, or Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany, and to The Adventurer; one of the “Nonsense Club” which held an “Exhibition by the Society of Sign-Painters” at Thornton’s house in Bow Street, Covent Garden 1754, in ridicule of the Society of Arts; he and George Colman (adm. 1741, qv) started The Comnnoisseur, Jan 1754, which ran to 140 weekly numbers, and The St. James’s Chronicle, 1761; contributor to St. Jamesís Magazine; wrote burlesque Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day, 1763, and The Battle of the Wigs, 1767; translated into blank verse five of the comedies of Plautus 1767; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 3 Feb 1764 Silvia, sister of Sir John Brathwaite (qv); d. 9 May 1768. Buried East Cloister, Westminster Abbey, with monument. DNB.
THORNTON, BONNELL GEORGE; b.; adm. 15 Sep 1812.
THORNTON, BONNELL GEORGE, son of Bonnell Thornton (qv), and his second wife; bapt. St. James, Piccadilly 4 Apr 1765 (IGI); adm. 11 Apr 1774; left 1775; Trinity Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 6 Jun 1783, scholar 1783; m. 2 Aug 1787 Catherine Ann, dau. of Sarah Bannerman [evidently a widow in 1787]; d. 14 Apr 1790, aged 25. Memorial tablet, East Cloister, Westminster Abbey.
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THORNLEY, G.; b.; adm.; name up school 1807.
THORNHILL, WILLIAM, brother of Henry Bache Thornhill (qv); b.; in school lists 1795, 1797; 2nd Lieut., 23rd Foot 25 Oct 1799; Lieut., 28 Feb 1800; Capt., 5 May 1804; 7th Hussars 12 Jun 1806; Maj., 8 Apr 1813; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 18 Jun 1815; Lieut. -Col., 12 Aug 1819; retd. 28 Sep 1826; KH 1819; served in Peninsular War; wounded at battles of Orthes and Waterloo; ADC at battle of Waterloo to Henry William Paget, Earl of Uxbridge (afterwards 1st Marquis of Anglesey) (qv); d. 9 Dec 1850.
THORNHILL, JOHN, son of Cudbert Thornhill, Capt. EI Maritime Service, Master Attendant, Port of Calcutta, and Maria Ursula Hammond; bapt. 17 Nov 1773; adm. 31 Jan 1784; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1787; Writer, EICS Bengal 1790; arrived in India 1 Aug 1790; Assistant to Secretary, Secret Dept.; Assistant to Collector, Twenty-four Parganas 1793; Collector 1797; Deputy Collector of Customs, Calcutta 1801; present at OWW dinner at Calcutta 1801 (Hickey, Memoirs, iv, 270); Secretary, Board of Trade 1804; Postmaster-Gen., 1810; member, Post Office Committee 1811; res. 7 Jan 1812; director, East India Company 1816-40; m. 1st, 15 Feb 1794 (IGI) Henrietta Sarah Craigie; m. 2nd, 29 Apr 1817 Henrietta Philippina, dau. of Col. Mark Beaufoy, Bushey Park, Herts.; d. 3 Feb 1841.
THORNHILL, JOHN, brother of Bache Thornhill (adm. 1715, qv); bapt. 11 May 1701; adm. (aged 13) May 1715; not mentioned in father’s will dated 1729.