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GB-2014-WSA-16851 · Person · 1765-1790

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.

Thornley, G., fl. 1807
GB-2014-WSA-16850 · Person · fl. 1807

THORNLEY, G.; b.; adm.; name up school 1807.

Thornhill, William, d. 1850
GB-2014-WSA-16849 · Person · d. 1850

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, 1773-1841
GB-2014-WSA-16848 · Person · 1773-1841

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, 1701-?
GB-2014-WSA-16847 · Person · 1701-?

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.

GB-2014-WSA-16846 · Person · 1780-1822

THORNHILL, HENRY BACHE, eldest son of Bache Thornhill, Stanton in the Peak, Derbs., and Jane, dau. of Edward Gould, Mansfield Woodhouse, Notts.; grandson of Bache Thornhill (adm. 1715, qv); b. 7 Jan 1780; in school lists 1795, 1797; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Apr 1798, aged 18; m. 29 Aug 1801 Helen, eldest dau. of Charles Pole, Liverpool; d. at Tours, France 18 Sep 1822.

GB-2014-WSA-20659 · Person · 1952-1973

Thornhill, David George Thomas, son of Ronald Thomas Russell Thornhill, scientific advisory officer, of Bromley, Kent, and Phyllis Mary, d. of Edward John Surman, BBC engineer, of Warwick; b. 9 Sept. 1952; adm. Sept. 1965 (W); left July 1970; d. Feb. 1973.