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Thomas Mortimer (writer)

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500: 31: 533: 234: 178:, London 1772; 2nd edit. 1802; translated into German by Johann Andreas Engelbrecht, Leipzig, 1783. Based on works of earlier economists, this work covered material had been used by Mortimer in a series of lectures given in London. It promoted the 513: 136: 198:
adopted taxes on menial servants, horses, machines, post-chaises, and other items; and for Lord Beauchamp's proposal for preventing arrests for debts under ÂŁ6.
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was known to be a personal friend of Mortimer. He returned to England, resumed his writing, and worked as a private tutor.
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Local Business Voice: The History of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland, and Revolutionary America, 1760–2011
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Observations during a Voyage in the South Seas and elsewhere in the brig "Mercury," commanded by J. H. Cox, esq.
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Mortimer married twice, and had a large family. A son, George, captain in the Royal Marines, published in 1791
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in London. His mother died in 1744, and he was left under the guardianship of John Baker of Spitalfields.
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Mortimer was a voluminous writer, mainly on economic subjects. His largest work was
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The Insolent Behaviour of Dunstan to King Edwy on the Day of his Coronation Feast
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A Concise Account of the Rise ... of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts
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An Heroics of Empire: Benjamin West and Anglophone History Painting 1764—1774
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in 1783. In 1751 he translated from the French Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's 1749
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An Oration on the much lamented death of H.R.H. Frederick, Prince of Wales
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Mortimer published revised editions of his grandfather John Mortimer's
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He was the son of Thomas Mortimer (1706–1741), principal secretary to
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In November 1762 Mortimer was made English vice-consul for the
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A Grammar illustrating the Principles of Trade and Commerce
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Lectures on the Elements of Commerce, Politics, and Finance
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Besides pamphlets, Mortimer's economic publications were:
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was more successful at intrigue, as under-secretary to
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Mr. and Mrs. Garrick: Some Unpublished Correspondence
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Every Man his own Broker; or Guide to Exchange Alley
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Mortimer died on 31 March 1810 in Clarendon Square,
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Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress
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bull
bear

Sir Joseph Jekyll
Master of the Rolls
John Mortimer
Carey Street
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Harrow School
Austrian Netherlands
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
Ostend
Robert Wood
Lord Weymouth
John Wilkes
Somers Town, London
Cornélie Wouters
Every Man his own Broker; or Guide to Exchange Alley
Society of Arts
chamber of commerce
Malachy Postlethwayt
Charles Davenant
James Whiston
Lord North

Samuel Wale
Jacques Necker


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