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John Thornton (glass painter), English York Minster stained glass designer between 1405 and 1408 John Thornton (cartographer) (1641–1708), English cartographer and hydrographer John Thornton (philanthropist) (1720–1790), merchant and Christian philanthropist
John Thornton: Owner of a local mill, a friend and student of Margaret's father and Margaret's love interest. Nicholas Higgins: An industrial worker whom Margaret befriends. He has two daughters, Bessy and Mary. Hannah Thornton: John Thornton's mother, who reveres her son and dislikes Margaret (especially after Margaret rejects his proposal).
Margaret Hale is the heroine of Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel North and South.Initially, Gaskell wanted the title of the novel to be Margaret Hale, but Charles Dickens, the editor of Household Words, the magazine in which the novel was serialized, insisted on North and South.
Descended from a Hull family that had included five generations of merchants and local council officers who had been involved in the North Sea trade for several generations, John Thornton was born in Clapham, south of London in 1720 and was to inherit a huge fortune from his father Robert Thornton of Yorkshire, (1692–1742), a merchant who was to become a director of the Bank of England.
John Thornton chart showing "Hudson Straights commonly call'd the Norwest Passage" (JCB Library) Thornton, "the most competent and distinguished chart-maker in England" [1] was also a surveyor and an engraver. So far as is known, it was in England a unique combination of skills. [39] Thornton worked in the Minories just outside
John Thornton Augustine Washington (May 20, 1783 – October 9, 1841) was a prominent Virginia (now West Virginia) farmer who served a term in the Virginia House of Delegates. Washington was a grandnephew of George Washington , first President of the United States .
English: "A chart of the sea coast of New Foundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New Jersey, with Virginia and Maryland", 1689, by John Thornton of the Thames school of chartmakers Date 1689
Thornton's depiction of St John the Baptist, from the Great East Window of York Minster, showing his characteristic treatment of faces. John Thornton of Coventry (fl. 1405–1433) was a master glazier and stained glass artist active in England during the 15th century. The output of his workshop includes some of the finest English medieval glass.
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