See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• THOMAS LOWNDES (1692-1748)
• LOWNDES, WILLIAM THOMAS (1798-1843)

LOWNDES (1692-1748)  , founder of the Lowndean professorship of See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy at See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge university, See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1692, both his See also:

• FATHER

father and See also:

• MOTHER

mother being See also:

• CHESHIRE

Cheshire landowners . In 1725 he was appointed See also:

• PROVOST (through O. Fr. prevost, mod. prevot, Lat. praepositus, set over, from praeponere, to place in front)

provost See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

marshal of See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Carolina, a See also:

• POST

post he preferred to fill by See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy . In 1727 See also:

• LOWNDES, THOMAS (1692-1748)
• LOWNDES, WILLIAM THOMAS (1798-1843)

Lowndes claimed to have taken a prominent See also:

• PART

part in inducing the See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government to See also:

• PURCHASE

purchase Carolina, but he surrendered his patent when the See also:

• TRANSFER (from Lat. transferre, to bear across, carry over)

transfer of the See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony to the See also:

• CROWN

crown was completed . His patent was renewed in 1730, but he resigned it in 1733 . He then brought various impractical schemes before the government to check the illicit See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade in See also:

• WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool between See also:

• IRELAND
• IRELAND, CHURCH
• IRELAND, CHURCH OF
• IRELAND, JOHN (1761-1842)
• IRELAND, JOHN (1838- )
• IRELAND, WILLIAM HENRY (1777-1835)

Ireland and See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France; to regulate the See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper currency of New England; and to See also:

• SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)

supply the See also:

• NAVY

navy with See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

salt from brine, &c . He died on the 12th of May 1748 . By his will he See also:

• LEFT

left his inherited Cheshire properties to the university of Cambridge for the See also:

• FOUNDATION (Lat. fundatio, from fundare, to found)

foundation of a See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of astronomy and See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry .