Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford,
stipple engraving by Joseph Peter Paul Rauschmayer (1758–1815), after a portrait painted by Kellerhofen in
Munich in 1797
Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford, (18 October 1774 – 2 December 1852) was a
philanthropist.[1][2] She is the first American to be known as a
Countess.[1][2][3]
Early life
Both her parents were born and brought up in the
Americancolonies and married there in 1772.
During the
American Revolutionary War of 1775 to 1783, Benjamin Thompson took the side of the British, and at the end of the war he moved to London. He was
knighted in 1784.[2][4]
Adult life
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Bibliography
Bradley, D. (1967). Count Rumford. Van Nostrand. ISBN B0000CM48T.
Brown, G.I. (2001). Count Rumford: The Extraordinary Life of a Scientific Genius – Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy. Sutton Publishing.
ISBN0-262-02138-2.
Ellis, George E. (1814–1894) (1871). Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Ellis.{{
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link)
Larsen, E. (1953). An American in Europe: The life of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. Rider. ISBN B0000CII01.
Metcalf, Henry Harrison et al., The Granite Monthly, published 1886, Original from the University of California, Google Books digitized.
Sparrow, W.J. (1964). Knight of the White Eagle: A biography of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, 1753–1814. Hutchinson. ISBN B0000CM48T.