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Richard Thornton
‘A view on the Royal Exchange’. A Portrait of Richard Thornton by Richard Dighton, October 1823
Born
(1776-09-20)20 September 1776
Burton-in-Lonsdale, England
Died
20 June 1865(1865-06-20) (aged 88)
Merton, England
Children
Richard Napoleon Lee
Richard Thornton (20 September 1776 – 20 June 1865) was an English millionaire. He died in Merton, Surrey and is buried at West Norwood Cemetery in London. On his death, Richard Thornton left an estate of £2,800,000,[1] which is the largest fortune to have been valued for probate in Great Britain before 1870.[2] Richard Thornton was a merchant and trader, notably in Baltic goods. He was also a Liveryman of the Leathersellers' Company (a Livery Company of the City of London), of which he became Master in 1836. He personally funded the new almshouses built for the Leathersellers' Company at Barnet, where his bust (by Thomas Earle) is still preserved and a nearby road is named Thornton Road in his honour. The Leathersellers' Company also has a portrait of Thornton painted in 1838 by Frederick Yeates Hurlstone.[3]
^"Richard Thornton – The Richest of the Rich, The wealthiest 250 people in Britain since 1066". Archived from the original on 11 December 2007. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
^Total Wealth, probate value largest fortune left in Britain before 1870 . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 54 . page 639. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2004.
^Farrell, Jerome: Richard Thornton, Entrepreneur and Leatherseller in The Leathersellers' Review 2010–11, pp 16–18
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