Thomas NorthmoreFSA (1766–1851) was an English writer, inventor and geologist.
Origins
He was born at Cleve[2] in the parish of
St Thomas,
Exeter, in
Devon, the eldest son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve, by his wife Elizabeth Osgood, daughter and heiress of Richard Osgood of
Fulham.
Thomas Welby Northmore, who predeceased his father, having married his cousin Katherine Welby (d. 1869), third daughter of
Sir William Earle Welby, 2nd Baronet (1768–1852), by whom he had two sons:
Thomas Welby Northmore, who succeeded his grandfather in the paternal estates;[3]
Tryphiodōrou Iliou Alōsis. De plurimis mendis purgata, et notis illustrata a T. Northmore (Greek), London, 1791; reissued with a Latin version in 1804.
Plutarch's Treatise upon the Distinction between a Friend and Flatterer, with Remarks, London, 1793.
Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar. By Phileleutherus Devoniensis, London, 1795. In this work a
utopian form of government is described.
A Triplet of Inventions, consisting of a Description of a Nocturnal or Diurnal Telegraph, a Proposal for an Universal Character, and a Scheme for facilitating the Progress of Science; exemplified in the Osteological part of Anatomy, Exeter, 1796.
A Quadruplet of Invention, Exeter, 1796; an augmented edition of the ‘Triplet.’
An edition of
Thomas Gray's Tour through England and Wales [1799].
Of Education founded upon Principles. Part the First. Time: previous to the Age of puberty, London, 1800.
Washington; or Liberty restored: a Poem in ten Books, London, 1809; Baltimore, 1809; notice in ‘Quarterly Review,’ ii. 365–75.
In Nicholson's Journal he wrote on Effects on Gases by change in their Habitudes, or elective Attractions, when mechanically compressed, 1805 (vol. xii. p. 368), and on Experiments on condensed Gases, 1806 (vol. xiii. p. 233).[4]
^Vivian, Lt.Col. J. L., (ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the
Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p. 852, pedigree of Northmore of Cleve