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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.

THORNHILL, BACHE, eldest son of Henry Bache Thornhill (qv); b. 28 Jun 1803; adm. 9 Feb 1815 (G); left Bartholomewtide 1815; Cornet, 7th Light Dragoons 7 Sep 1820; half-pay Oct 1821; d. unm. 10 May 1823.

THORNHILL, BACHE, eldest son of John Thornhill, Bakewell, Derbs., and Ann, dau. of William Bache, Stanton in the Peak, Derbs.; bapt. 10 Mar 1698; adm. from Derby Sch. May 1715; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Jul 1717, aged 17; adm. Inner Temple 16 Jun 1719, called to bar 12 Apr 1725, left 1738; m. 1st, 31 Dec 1734 Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Coke MP, Melbourne, Derbs., Vice-Chamberlain of the Household; m. 2nd, 1742 Margaret, dau. of Anthony Eyre, Rampton, Notts.; d. 1761 (will proved PCC 3 Mar 1762, as of Stanton, Derbs. ).

THORNETON, ---; b.; at school 1663/4 (Busby’s Account Book).