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ROBERT THORNTON (1623-1678)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 881 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:THORNTON (1623-1678)  , See also:English See also:antiquary, belonged to an old See also:Nottinghamshire See also:family, which took its name from Thoroton, near See also:Newark . He resided mainly at another See also:village in the same neighbourhood, See also:Car See also:Colston, where he practised as a physician and where he lived the See also:life of a See also:country See also:gentleman . He took very little See also:part in the See also:Civil See also:War, although his sympathies were with the royalists, but as a See also:magistrate he was very active in taking proceedings against the See also:Quakers . In 1667 Thoroton, aided by a See also:band of helpers, began. to See also:work upon his elaborate Antiquities of Nottinghamshire . This was published in See also:London in 1677; it was dedicated to See also:Gilbert See also:Sheldon, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury, and was illustrated by engravings by W . See also:Hollar . In 1797 a new edition of the Antiquities was published by See also:John Throsby (1740-1803), who added an additional See also:volume . In 1897 the Thoroton Society was founded in See also:honour of the antiquarian, its See also:object being to promote the study of the See also:history and antiquities of Nottinghamshire . Under its auspices See also:annual volumes of Transactions and several volumes of Records have been published and much valuable work has been done . A See also:brass tablet to the memory of Thoroton has been placed in Car Colston See also:church . See J . T .

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Godfrey, See also:Robert Tlwroton, Physician and Antiquary (189o) .

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