Lt-General Sir William Thornton

Army Officer.

His nephew, Andrew Todd (c.1754–1796), emigrated to North America to work in his uncle (Isaac Todd)’s fur trading firm. By his will, he released his enslaved person, Jack (‘Andrew Todd (fur trader)’, Wikipedia [online], <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Todd_(fur_trader)> accessed 5 August 2021).

Donor: presented in 1837: NG83.

History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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J. Turner et al. (eds), Grove Art Online, Oxford 1998-, https://www.oxfordartonline.com/groveart/
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UCL Department of History (ed.), Legacies of British Slave-ownership, London 2020, https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/
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R. H. Vetch and R. T. Stearn, 'Thornton, Sir William', in C. Matthew et al. (eds), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford 1992-, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/27366
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