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THORNTON, THOMAS, third son of Henry Thornton, Northend, Fulham, Middlesex, and Margaret Laughton, Uxbridge, Middlesex; b.; adm.; QS ; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1595, matr. 27 Dec 1595, aged 18, Westminster Student to death; BA 1599; MA 1602; d. 17 Aug 1613. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

THORNTON, STEPHEN EDWARD, brother of Godfrey Thornton (qv); b. 13 Nov 1799; adm. 7 May 1810; m. 15 Sep 1829 Julia Anne Frances, second dau. of John Campbell, Blunham, Beds.; d. 1 Feb 1857.

THORNTON, ROBERT GIDLEY, son of Ven. Robinson Thornton DD, Archdeacon of Middlesex and Vicar of St. John’s, Notting Hill, London, and Elizabeth, sister of Bartholomew Charles Gidley (qv); b. 20 Jul 1868; adm. 26 Sep 1878 (H & J); left Jul 1887; Keble Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Oct 1887; BA 1892; MA 1895; Head Master, Hill Brow School, Eastbourne, Sussex 1907-.

THORNTON, GODFREY, son of Stephen Thornton, Moggerhanger House, Beds., director Bank of England, and Mary, sister of Charles Littledale (qv); b. 9 Nov 1795; adm. 20 Jan 1807; left 1812; Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 17 Aug 1812, matr. 1813; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 20 Jan 1814; Lieut. and Capt., 11 Oct 1821; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 3 Dec 1830; Brevet Col., 9 Nov 1846; Maj., 1st Foot Guards 6 Aug 1847; Lieut. -Col., 6 Jul 1852; retd. 13 Sep 1853; m. 1st, 8 Jul 1821 his cousin Susanna, dau. of John Dixon, Cecil Lodge, Herts.; m. 2nd, Sophia, dau. of Brice Pearse, Woodford, Essex; d. 8 Mar 1857.

THORNTON, GEORGE, brother of Godfrey Thornton (qv); b. 25 Dec 1803; adm. 16 Apr 1817 (Packharness'); Trinity Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 31 Oct 1821; BA 1826; MA 1829; ordained deacon 1827, priest 1829; Vicar of Sharnbrook, Beds., from 1844; d. 22 Oct 1876.

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.

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