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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.

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.

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.