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Thomas Amory (other)
Thomas Amory may refer to: * Thomas Amory (author) (1691–1788), Irish writer * Thomas Amory (tutor) (1701–1774), English dissenting tutor, minister, and poet * Thomas Coffin Amory (1812–1889), American lawyer and biographer * Thomas J.C. Amory (1828–1864), American Civil War officer {{hndis, Amory, Thomas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Amory (author)
Thomas Amory (c. 1691 – 25 November 1788) was a writer with an Irish background. He is thought to have lived in Dublin and later in Westminster. Polymath In 1755 Amory published ''Memoirs containing the lives of several ladies of Great Britain, a History of Antiquities and Observations on the Christian Religion''. This was followed by the ''Life of John Buncle, Esq.'' in 1766, which was practically a continuation: Vol. I, 1756, and Vol. II, These works are those of a polymath, covering philology, natural science, theology and other subjects, unsystematically, but with occasional originality and felicity of diction. Private life Amory was a keen Unitarian Unitarian or Unitarianism may refer to: Christian and Christian-derived theologies A Unitarian is a follower of, or a member of an organisation that follows, any of several theologies referred to as Unitarianism: * Unitarianism (1565–present .... He was also a renowned eccentric, with a peculiar appearance and the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Amory (tutor)
Thomas Amory D.D. (28 January 1701 – 24 June 1774) was a British dissenting tutor and minister and poet from Taunton. Biography His father was a grocer and his mother a sister of Henry Grove. He was at school under Chadwick, a local dissenting minister, and learned French at Exeter under André de Majendie, a refugee minister. On 25 March 1717 he entered, as a divinity student, the Taunton Academy, then the chief seat of culture for the dissenters of the west, under Stephen James of Fullwood, who taught theology, and Henry Grove, who taught philosophy. He received his testimonials for the ministry in 1722, and then went to London to study experimental physics in the academy of John Eames in Moorfields. In 1725, on Stephen James's death and before his own ordination, he acted as assistant in the ministry to Robert Darch, at Hull Bishops, and in the Taunton Academy to Grove. He was ordained 3 October 1730 as colleague to ''Edmund Batson'' at Paul's Meeting, Taunton. Batson was mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Coffin Amory
Thomas Coffin Amory Jr. (October 6, 1812 – August 20, 1889) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest son of Jonathan Amory and his wife Mehitable (Sullivan) Culter. An American lawyer, historian, politician, biographer, and poet, he graduated from Harvard University in 1830. He became a member of the bar of Suffolk County, Boston in 1834. He served in the legislature of Massachusetts and in the municipal government of Boston. In 1858 he published "Life of James Sullivan," former governor of Massachusetts and his grandfather. He later published extensively on the American Revolution as well as on various others of his ancestors, including Major-General John Sullivan and Sir Isaac Coffin. He also wrote numerous poems, the best known of which, "William Blaxton, Sole Inhabitant of Boston" was written at a time when the Old South Church of Boston was threatened with demolition. The poem is said to have contributed to saving the church. In 1858, Amory was elected a member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |