Excerpt from Some Things We Have Remembered: Samuel Thornton, Admiral, 1797-1859, Percy Melville Thornton, 1841-1911 IT may be asked why under the title of this work I incident ally narrate the history of several Thorntons of Birkin, some hitherto unnoticed in literature, others already celebrated by the Stephens, Wilberforces, Macaulays and other powerful writers, students of the nineteenth century, who have made Clapham a veritable Mecca of philanthropy and anti-slavery. It is because I think there will be a general ...
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Excerpt from Some Things We Have Remembered: Samuel Thornton, Admiral, 1797-1859, Percy Melville Thornton, 1841-1911 IT may be asked why under the title of this work I incident ally narrate the history of several Thorntons of Birkin, some hitherto unnoticed in literature, others already celebrated by the Stephens, Wilberforces, Macaulays and other powerful writers, students of the nineteenth century, who have made Clapham a veritable Mecca of philanthropy and anti-slavery. It is because I think there will be a general interest felt for some of those members of my family who have striven to serve the State well in more than one capacity. Even if at first Sight it may seem a somewhat startling audacity for me to propound this View and to connect earlier incidents with the recollections of my father and myself, I trust that a perusal of these pages will show that a more complete record of the times in question has been thus secured by the addition of some valuable details to those already published. The claims of Battersea Rise, Clapham Common, to be venerated as the centre of the thornton-wilberforce tradi tions naturally receive respectful attention from me, a son of the house by marriage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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