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. | |