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:TWINING (1735-1804)
, See also:English classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Twickenham on the 8th of See also:January 1734â1735
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The son of See also:Daniel See also:Twining, See also:tea See also:merchant of See also:London, he was originally intended for a commercial See also:life, but his distaste for it and his fondness for study decided his See also:father to send him to the university
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He entered See also:Sidney See also:Sussex See also:College, See also:Cambridge (See also:fellow, 176o), took orders, and after his See also:marriage in 1764 spent the See also:remainder of his life at See also:Fordham (See also:Essex) and See also:Colchester, where he died on the 6th of See also:August 1804
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His reputation as a classical scholar was established by his See also:translation, with notes, of See also:Aristotle's Poetics (1789)
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Twining was also an accomplished musician, and assisted See also:Charles See also:Burney in his See also:History of See also:Music
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Selections from his See also:correspondence will be found in Recreations and Studies of a See also:Country Clergyman of the Eighteenth See also:Century (1882) and Selections from Papers of the Twining See also:Family (1887); edited by his See also:grand-See also:nephew (See also:Richard Twining) ; see also See also:Gentleman's See also:Magazine, Ixxiv
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See also:Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, vol. iii
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