Henry Sykes Thornton

(1800-1881)

LBT ID: HeThorn1881	B/BAP: 1800-05-28 DIED: 1881-11
SOURCES: Melville Henry Massue Ruvigny, Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Essex Volume (1994) 520; thepeerage.com
Of Battersea Rise; the son of the banker Henry Thornton of Clapham (d. 1815), he succeeded his father in the banking business, married Harriet Maria, daughter of Archdeacon William Dealtry, and was elected to the Royal Society in 1834.
REFERENCES TO Henry Sykes Thornton: Robert Southey to Sir Robert Harry Inglis, [1826] in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 6 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXX. 1826-1827