Frederic Du Pré Thornton
(1841-1903)
21 March 1863

Volume 10, page 123, sitting number 12,860.

Frederic Du Pré Thornton was born on 16 September 1841 at Wendover Vicarage, Buckinghamshire, the son of Reverend Spencer Thornton and his wife, Caroline Adelaide Thornton. He appears on the 1861 census, age 19, boarding with Thomas Baxter, curate of Great Coates, Lincolnshire.

On 11 June 1872 he married Anne Jane Hill at the parish church of Immanuel and St Andrew in Streatham.

He was the author of Elementary Arabic: A Grammar, which is still in print today.

According to the abstract of his will, Frederic Du Pré Thornton 'of High-beach Westgate-on-Sea Kent died 12 January 1903 at 16 Robertson-terrace Hastings'. His effects were valued at £10,051.

[From an album compiled by Gertrude Frances Vesey of Long Ditton, Surrey. The daughter of George and Harriet Vesey, she was baptised at Long Ditton on 4 July 1842. She was 18 years old when she began to compile the album. She lived at home with her parents for many years, until on 23 November 1876, at the age of 34, she became the second wife of the 58-year-old Reverend John William Hawtrey (1818-1891). She appears on the 1881 census living at St Michael’s School, Langley Marish, Buckinghamshire, where her husband was the headmaster 'without the cure of souls.' The couple had a three-year-old daughter called Gabrielle and a nine-month-old son called Guy.]