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Tompion, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Tompion, Thomas, 1639?–1713, English clockmaker. When the Royal Observatory at Greenwich was established in 1676, Tompion was chosen to make two clocks, to be wound only once a year,…Tooke, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Tooke, Thomas, 1774–1858, British economist, b. St. Petersburg, Russia. A successful businessman, he began to speak on behalf of free trade before Parliamentary committees and was one…Beer, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Beer, Thomas, 1889–1940, American author, b. Council Bluffs, Iowa, grad. Yale, 1911, and studied law at Columbia, 1911–13. He is best remembered for his biographies of Stephen Crane (…Wolsey, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Wolsey, ThomasWolsey, Thomasw&oobreve;lˈzē [key], 1473?–1530, English statesman and prelate, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. From 1514 to 1529 Wolsey virtually controlled…Weelkes, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Weelkes, Thomas, c.1575–1623, English composer. His four books of madrigals (1597–1600) mark Weelkes as one of the great English madrigalists. His music is remarkable for melodic…Cavendish, Thomas
(Encyclopedia) Cavendish, Thomas, 1560–92, English navigator. He commanded a ship in the flotilla under Sir Richard Grenville sent (1585) by Sir Walter Raleigh to establish the first colony in…Buckhurst, Lord
(Encyclopedia) Buckhurst, Lord: see Sackville, Charles, and Sackville, Thomas.Pilgrims' Way
(Encyclopedia) Pilgrims' Way, ancient English road that ran from Hampshire to Kent, over the Sussex Downs. It is so called because it may have been used during the Middle Ages by pilgrims who came to…Crestwood
(Encyclopedia) Crestwood, city (2020 pop. 11,808), St. Louis co., E central Mo., a suburb of St. Louis; inc. as a city 1949. Located in a truck-farming…May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough
(Encyclopedia) May, Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Farnborough, 1815–86, English constitutional jurist and historian. A period of long service to Parliament, including his tenure (1871–86) as clerk of the…Trending
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