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Thomas Hardy was born on 3 March 1752 in Larbert, Stirlingshire, Scotland, the son of a merchant seaman. [1] His father died in 1760 at sea while Thomas was still a boy. He was sent to school by his maternal grandfather [1] and later apprenticed to a shoemaker in Stirlingshire.
1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1752nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 752nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1752, the ...
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Wordsworth. [1]
Thomas Hardy (political reformer) (1752–1832), British political reformer and an object of the 1794 Treason Trials; Thomas Hardy (Royal Navy officer, died 1732) (1666–1732), admiral and member of parliament for Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; Sir Thomas Hardy, 1st Baronet (1769–1839), British naval officer
Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy (13 September 1666 – 16 August 1732) was a Royal Navy officer of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Having joined the navy sometime before 1688, Hardy's career was supported by Captain George Churchill, whom he served as first lieutenant during the Battle of Barfleur in 1692.
About 50 firefighters were called to the blaze, which spread through the Grade II listed building in South Street, Dorchester, early on Monday.
The painter Thomas Hardy has sometimes been confused with another Thomas Hardy: the shoemaker, radical, and founder of the London Corresponding Society who lived 1752–1832. Hardy the artist did paint the politician John Horne Tooke, who was associated with Hardy the radical, and the latter two were both put on trial for high treason in 1794.
The Dynasts is an English-language epic in verse and prose by Thomas Hardy. Hardy himself described this work as "an epic-drama of the war with Napoleon, in three parts, nineteen acts and one hundred and thirty scenes". Not counting the Forescene and the Afterscene, the exact total number of scenes is 131.