Almeria Phillimore [née Thornton]

(d. 1851)

LBT ID: AlPhill1851	DIED: 1851-05-22
SOURCES: Hunt, Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828); Gentleman's Magazine (April 1807) 375; Gentleman's Magazine (July 1851) 101; Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry (1871) 2:1090
The youngest daughter of Godfrey Thornton and childhood friend of Leigh Hunt; in 1807 she married William Phillimore, of Deacon's hill, Elstree, Herts. (d. 1860).
REFERENCES TO Almeria Phillimore [née Thornton]: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Friends—the Thorntons. Found 1: ¶ 31 Portraits—more West Indians. Found 1: ¶ 33 William Howitt , “Leigh Hunt” in Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets 2 Vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1847) 347-67 Found 1: ¶