Author: Thornton, Percy Melville:
Title: Some Things We Have Remembered. Samuel Thornton, Admiral, 1798 - 1859. Percy Melville Thornton, 1841 - 1911.
Description: London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1912 Hard cover green cloth bds, Good, some markings, bds dusty, gilt lettering to upper bd and spine, contents fine, tight and bright, pp337, no inscript.s, b/w frontis.10 further illust.s placed between pges 160 and 161. A presumed facsimile reissue of these family recollections by Admiral Samuel Thornton (1797-1859) and Percy Melville Thornton (1841-1911, M.P. for Clapham), first published in 1912.

Keywords: autobiography memoir life Samuel Thornton Percy Melville Thornton social history navy naval career Harrow voyages Birkin Chobham Place Moth-Vey Rices John Thornton Eltons Cambridge Cottesmore politics


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