Thomas Thornton

(1767 c.-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Thornton, Thomas, d. 1814 DNB: Thornton, Thomas (bap. 1767?, d. 1814), writer on Turkey LBT ID: ThThorn1814 VIAF ID: 55632970 LOC ID: n86084713	B/BAP: 1767 DIED: 1814-03-28
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
An employee of the British factory at Constantinople from about 1793; he published The Present State of Turkey (1807) which gives a favorable opinion of the Turks.
REFERENCES TO Thomas Thornton: Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson, 25 September 1811 in Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 James Thomas Hodgson, Memoir of Francis Hodgson 2 Vols (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter X. 1811-12.