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Philip Thicknesse, the Glossary

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Captain Philip Thicknesse (1719 – 23 November 1792) was a British Army officer and writer who was a friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 39 relations: Anne Ford, Bath, Somerset, Blue Mountains (Jamaica), Boulogne-sur-Mer, British Army, Captain (British Army and Royal Marines), Captain lieutenant, Dictionary of National Biography, Diphtheria, England, Farthinghoe, Garden hermit, George Thicknesse, George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley, History of the Royal Marines, Humphrey Gainsborough, Independent company (British Army), Jamaican Maroons, James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven, John Hayes (art historian), Landguard Fort, Lieutenant governor, London, Mechanical Turk, Nanny of the Maroons, National Portrait Gallery, London, Northamptonshire, Oxford University Press, Pas-de-Calais, Province of Georgia, Quao, Royal Crescent, Sansom & Company, Simon & Schuster, Staffordshire, Suffolk, The Gentleman's Magazine, Thomas Gainsborough, Tobias Smollett.

  2. 18th-century Royal Marines personnel

Anne Ford

Anne or Ann Ford, (Mrs Philip Thicknesse, 22 February 1737 – 20 January 1824) was an 18th-century English musician and singer, famous in her time for a scandal that attended her struggle to perform in public.

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Bath, Somerset

Bath (RP) is a city in the ceremonial county of Somerset, in England, known for and named after its Roman-built baths.

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Blue Mountains (Jamaica)

The Blue Mountains are the longest mountain range in Jamaica.

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Boulogne-sur-Mer

Boulogne-sur-Mer (Boulonne-su-Mér; Bonen; Gesoriacum or Bononia), often called just Boulogne, is a coastal city in Northern France.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)

Captain (Capt) is a junior officer rank of the British Army and Royal Marines and in both services it ranks above lieutenant and below major with a NATO ranking code of OF-2.

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Captain lieutenant

Captain lieutenant or captain-lieutenant is a military rank, used in a number of navies worldwide and formerly in the British Army.

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Dictionary of National Biography

The Dictionary of National Biography (DNB) is a standard work of reference on notable figures from British history, published since 1885.

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Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Farthinghoe

Farthinghoe is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England.

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Garden hermit

Garden hermits or ornamental hermits were people encouraged to live alone in purpose-built hermitages, follies, grottoes, or rockeries on the estates of wealthy landowners, primarily during the 18th century.

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George Thicknesse

George Thicknesse (1714 – 18 December 1790) was an English schoolmaster.

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George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley

George Thicknesse, later Thicknesse-Touchet, 19th Baron Audley (4 February 1757 – 24 August 1818) was an English peer.

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History of the Royal Marines

The history of the Royal Marines began on 28 October 1664 with the formation of the Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot soon becoming known as the Admiral's Regiment.

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Humphrey Gainsborough

Humphrey Gainsborough (1718 – 23 August 1776) was an English non-conformist minister, engineer, and inventor.

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Independent company (British Army)

An independent company was originally a unit raised by the English Army, subsequently the British Army, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for garrison duties in Britain and the overseas colonies.

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Jamaican Maroons

Jamaican Maroons descend from Africans who freed themselves from slavery in the Colony of Jamaica and established communities of free black people in the island's mountainous interior, primarily in the eastern parishes.

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James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven

James Tuchet, 6th Earl of Castlehaven (died 12 October 1740) was the son of James Tuchet, 5th Earl of Castlehaven and his wife Anne Pelson.

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John Hayes (art historian)

John Trevor Hayes (21 January 1929 – 25 December 2005) was a British art historian and museum director.

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Landguard Fort

Landguard Fort is a fort at the mouth of the River Orwell outside Felixstowe, Suffolk, designed to guard the mouth of the river.

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Lieutenant governor

A lieutenant governor, lieutenant-governor, or vice governor is a high officer of state, whose precise role and rank vary by jurisdiction.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Mechanical Turk

The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (Schachtürke,; A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent.

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Nanny of the Maroons

Queen Nanny, Granny Nanny, or Nanny of the Maroons ONH (c. 1686 – c. 1760), was an early-18th-century freedom fighter and leader of the Jamaican Maroons.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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Northamptonshire

Northamptonshire (abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pas-de-Calais

The Pas-de-Calais ("strait of Calais"; Pas-Calés; also Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders.

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Province of Georgia

The Province of Georgia (also Georgia Colony) was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America.

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Quao

Quao (d. c. 1750s) was one of the leaders of the Windward Maroons, who fought the British colonial forces of Jamaica to a standstill during the First Maroon War of the 1730s.

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Royal Crescent

The Royal Crescent is a row of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent in the city of Bath, England.

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Sansom & Company

Sansom & Company are art publishers based in Bristol, England.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (postal abbreviation Staffs.) is a landlocked ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Suffolk

Suffolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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The Gentleman's Magazine

The Gentleman's Magazine was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731.

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Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

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Tobias Smollett

Tobias George Smollett (bapt. 19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish writer and surgeon.

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See also

18th-century Royal Marines personnel

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Thicknesse

Also known as P. T. Esq, Phillip Thicknesse.