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Philip Thicknesse

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30: 530: 22: 190:(1732–1824), daughter of Thomas Ford, whom he married on 27 September 1762. She was a gifted, well-educated musician with a beautiful voice and knew five languages. She gave Sunday concerts at her father's house, but her ambition was to become a professional actress, and despite fatherly disapproval, left home to go on the stage. She and Thicknesse had a son, Captain John Thicknesse. RN (c. 1763–1846). The couple spent time travelling in Europe. In later life, he lived in the 175:. She and two children died, leaving a daughter, Anna. When Maria's parents died some time later (his mother-in-law committing suicide), he spent much time trying to claim their fortune. Thicknesse then married Lady Elizabeth Tuchet, daughter of 214:". His will stipulated that his right hand be cut off and delivered to his son, George, who was inattentive, "to remind him of his duty to God after having so long abandoned the duty he owed to a father, who once so affectionately loved him." 612: 602: 29: 607: 627: 194:, Bath in a house he then let out and sold. He moved to another, St. Catherine's Hermitage, and landscaped the grounds to create a "hermit's cell" for himself. 632: 96: 41: 313: 294: 267:
Memoirs and Anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, Late Lieutenant-Governor of Land Guard Fort, and unfortunately Father to George Touchet, Baron Audley
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Thicknesse was a friend of the society artist Thomas Gainsborough, whom he met in about 1753, and of his less well-known brother, the inventor
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in September 1736 but returned to England in 1737, claiming to be the first of the emigrants to return. He obtained a commission as a
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A 1790 caricature of Philip Thicknesse, trampling on moral and religious duties, his person covered with defamatory inscriptions
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In 1742, Thicknesse eloped with Maria Lanove, a wealthy heiress, whom he abducted from a street in Southampton. They moved to
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He also contributed to 'A View of the Poorhouse of Datchworth in Herts Addressed to the Overseers of England
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A sketch of St. Catherine's hermitage, near Bath; in a letter to Sir John O'Carroll, Bart. at Brussels
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A Treatise on the Art of Decyphering, And of Writing in Cyphers,With An Harmonic Alphabet
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Milton's Teeth and Ovid's Umbrella: Curiouser & Curiouser Adventures in History
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The Speaking Figure and the Automaton Chess Player, Exposed and Detected
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A Year's Journey Through The Pais Bas: or, Austrian Netherlands.
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Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd 177:James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven 35:Ann Ford, later Mrs Philip Thicknesse 7: 628:18th-century Royal Marines personnel 71:, son of John Thicknesse, Rector of 633:18th-century British Army personnel 531:Works by or about Philip Thicknesse 202:Thicknesse died on a journey near 55:. He wrote several travel guides. 14: 563:Portrait of his wife nee Ann Ford 233:The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 47:(1719 – 23 November 1792) was a 379:A Naval Biographical Dictionary 349:. London: Tate Gallery. p. 20. 290:Thicknesse, Philip (1719–1792) 262:London, printed for J. Debrett 63:Philip Thicknesse was born in 1: 150:. As an author, he wrote for 365:For more on Thicknesse see: 318:Georgia Historical Quarterly 451:Thicknesse, Philip (1787). 649: 623:Writers from Staffordshire 522:Works by Philip Thicknesse 397:The Royal Crescent in Bath 312:Turner, Katherine (2017). 549:National Portrait Gallery 426:Raffael, Michael (2006). 393:Lowndes, William (1981). 373:"Thicknesse, John"  153:The Gentleman's Magazine 493:Michael Olmert (1996), 430:. Birlinn. p. 56. 300:Oxford University Press 91:Thicknesse visited the 618:Royal Marines officers 593:English travel writers 382:. London: John Murray. 131:in 1740. He was later 123:. He transferred to a 38: 26: 598:British Army officers 148:Humphrey Gainsborough 33:Thomas Gainsborough, 32: 24: 499:Simon & Schuster 473:Park sand Gardens UK 231:'s epistolary novel 156:. 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Captain
British Army
Thomas Gainsborough
Staffordshire
England
Farthinghoe
Northamptonshire
George Thicknesse
Province of Georgia
captain
independent company
British Army
Jamaican Maroons
Blue Mountains
Quao
Queen Nanny
marine
Captain-Lieutenant
Lieutenant-Governor
Landguard Fort
Suffolk
Humphrey Gainsborough
The Gentleman's Magazine
The Turk
Bath
diphtheria
James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven
George

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