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    Henry Thrale (1724/1730?–4 April 1781) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1765 to 1780. He was a close friend of Samuel Johnson...
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    family of Anglo-Welsh landowners, and married firstly a wealthy brewer, Henry Thrale, with whom she had 12 children, then a music teacher, Gabriel Mario Piozzi...
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  • Look up Thrale in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Thrale is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henry Thrale (1724/1730?–1781), British...
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    with the Thrales for 17 years until Henry's death in 1781, sometimes staying in rooms at Thrale's Anchor Brewery in Southwark. Hester Thrale's documentation...
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    literary and cultural figures around the wealthy brewer Henry Thrale and his wife Hester Thrale who assembled at his country retreat Streatham Park and...
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    Hester Thrale, diarist, author and confidante of Samuel Johnson, and Henry Thrale, a wealthy brewer and patron of the arts. She became the second wife...
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  • built by the brewer Ralph Thrale. Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with his wife, Hester Thrale, entertained many of the leading...
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  • mind), and initially used for brewing by James Baverstock Sr in 1770. Henry Thrale adopted its use and it was later popularized by John Richardson in 1784...
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    William Mercer of Aldie, and in 1808 to Hester Maria Thrale, daughter of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, who is spoken of as 'Queeney' in Boswell's Life of...
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    Ralph Thrale on land he bought from the Lord of the Manor - the fourth Duke of Bedford. Streatham Park later passed to Ralph's son Henry Thrale, who with...
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    "Fanny Burney". bath-heritage.co.uk. Retrieved 15 June 2020. "Henry Thrale, Hester Thrale, Samuel Johnson, and Frances Burney blue plaque". openplaques...
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    Haydn, the essayist Edmund Burke and the MP for Southwark Henry Thrale, whose wife Hester Thrale was a close friend of Fanny's. Charles's first wife Esther...
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    from Henry Thrale's widow, Hester for £135,000, to be paid over four years. They additionally paid her for permission to keep using the Thrale & Co name...
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    historians have explored whether Henry was homosexual. Contemporary accounts include the writings of Hester Lynch Thrale (1741–1821), and the diplomat and...
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    the greatest single fault of these early lexicographers was, as historian Henry Hitchings put it, that they "failed to give sufficient sense of [the English]...
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    Thraliana (category Works by Hester Thrale)
    Thraliana was a diary kept by Hester Thrale and is part of the genre known as table talk. Although the work began as Thrale's diary focused on her experience...
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  • bookshop in Covent Garden, London. October 11 – The marriage of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale takes place. Both later become close friends and companions...
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  • introduces the character of Figaro. October 19 – Samuel Johnson, Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale, visiting Paris, watch King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie...
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    Dr Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Giuseppe Baretti, Henry Thrale, David Garrick, and artist Angelica Kauffman, exchanging his portrait...
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    work. On 10 January 1765, the day after Johnson was introduced to Henry and Hester Thrale, Johnson noted in his diary that he "Corrected a sheet." Afterwards...
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    Encyclopaedia (3rd ed.). Pan Macmillan. pp. 443–444. ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2. Henry Hitchings (2012). Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Book that Defined the World...
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    David Garrick John Hawkins Arthur Murphy Elizabeth Johnson (wife) Henry Thrale Hester Thrale Anna Williams Hodge Essays and periodicals Birmingham Journal...
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    the occasion of Katheryn's death. Her many descendants included Hester Thrale and the 18th century explorer John Salusbury. Mam Cymru "Katheryn of Berain...
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    of 33, he proposed marriage to Susannah Arabella Thrale, daughter of Henry Thrale and Hester Thrale but was rebuffed. He never married, and is not known...
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  • James Henry Thrale Mardall (7 November 1899 – 10 July 1988) was an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer. Mardall served in the Royal...
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    sat for Southwark, his colleague in the two-member constituency being Henry Thrale from 1765. He was created a baronet (30 July 1765) as a political ally...
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    Journal between 1752 and 1754. As Henry Thrale's oldest and dearest friend, he introduced Samuel Johnson to the Thrales in January 1765. No. 16 Hammersmith...
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    ISBN 0-8057-6934-X. "John Ruskin - Biography". The Victorian Web. Retrieved 2008-08-15. "Thrale family. Papers: Guide". harvard.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-10-01...
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  • Say 1973 1976 PPE Singaporean politician and former civil servant - Henry Thrale 1744 ? ? MP - William Weld ? ? Economics governor of Massachusetts -...
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    Britain Preceded by Henry Thrale Nathaniel Polhill Member of Parliament for Southwark 1780 – 1784 With: Nathaniel Polhill to 1782 Henry Thornton from 1782...
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