Godfrey Thornton

(1737-1806)

LBT ID: GoThorn1806	B/BAP: 1737 DIED: 1806
SOURCES: Hunt, Lord Byron, Lord Byron and some of his Contemporaries (1828); DNB ["William Astell"]; National Archives (UK)
Banker, of Mogerhanger House and Everton, a director of the Bank of England (1793-95); in 1766 he married Joan (or Jane) Godin.
REFERENCES TO Godfrey Thornton: Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Portraits—Mr. West & his Gallery. Found 1: ¶ 26 Friends—the Thorntons. Found 1: ¶ 32 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 1: ¶ 19 William Howitt , “Leigh Hunt” in Homes and Haunts of the most eminent British Poets 2 Vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1847) 347-67 Found 1: ¶