Henry Thornton

(1760-1815)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thornton, Henry, 1760-1815 NRA: Thornton Henry (1760-1815) MP Philanthropist and Economist DNB: Thornton, Henry (1760-1815), banker and political economist LBT ID: HeThorn1815 VIAF ID: 42996665 LOC ID: n82085601	B/BAP: 1760-03-10 DIED: 1815-01-16
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
Banker, MP, and cousin of William Wilberforce; he wrote An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain (1802).
REFERENCES TO Henry Thornton: Robert Southey to Neville White, 3 February 1807 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XIII. 1807 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 44 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Introduction Found 1: ¶ 12