Sportsman, reviver of falconry, and dissolute character; he spent his latter years living in France.

REFERENCES TO WORKS BY Thomas Thornton:

A Sporting Tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802, including a concise Description of the Sporting Establishments, Mode of Hunting, and other Field-amusements, as practised in that Country, with General Observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce, Strictures on the Customs and Manners of the French People, with a View of the Comparative Advantages of Sporting in France and England, in a Series of Letters to the Right Hon. the Earl of Darlington.