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Robert Thornton
(1759-1826)

LBT ID: RoThorn1836B/BAP:   1759-01-09
DIED:   1826-03-16
SOURCES: historyofparliamentonline.org
The son of John Thornton of Clapham (1720-90) and brother of Henry Thornton (d. 1815), he was a director of the East India Company and MP for Bridgwater (1785-90) and Colchester (1790-1817). He was an abolitionist and gambler who died a bankrupt in New York.
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