Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

(1753-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814 NRA: Thompson Benjamin (1753-1814) Count Von Rumford scientist DNB: Thompson, Sir Benjamin, Count Rumford in the nobility of the Holy Roman empire (1753-1814), natural philosopher and philanthropist LBT ID: BeThomp1814 VIAF ID: 84815521 LOC ID: n79060711	B/BAP: 1753-03-26 DIED: 1814-08-21
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American-born natural philosopher; a loyalist in the War of Independence he worked as a civil servant in Britain and later in Bavaria.
REFERENCES TO Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 12 June 1796 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Sydney Owenson to Robert Owenson, [1799?] in Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to Edith Southey, 9 May 1799 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 15 February 1802 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IV. 1796 Ch. VI. 1799-1800 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XIV Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1802 Found 1: ¶ 3 Appendix II Found 1: ¶ 5