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   Horner / Hornor
   Thomas
   T. H. ; Tom. Horner / Hornor ;
   
   
   1785
   1844
   
   grocer in Hull, England
   Quaker family
   T. H. learnt surveying and engineering from his brother-in-law ; Free Grammar School in Manchester
   England, UK
   T. H.: View of London and the Surrounding Country, taken with Mathematical Accuracy from an Observatory purposely erected over the Cross of St. Paul's Cathedral (London 1825) ; The Regent's Park Colosseum (reprinted 1982) ; Description of an Improved Method of Delineating Estates (1813) ;
   
   
   technical, geological, and topographic sepia drawing, watercolour & painting ; perspectival landscape drawing & painting w. the aid of a camera lucida
   http://www.magnoliabox.com/artist/14869/thomas-hornor
   further links in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hornor_%28surveyor%29
   Klingender 1968/74: 252 & fig. 17 ; E. Baigent in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) ; Elis Jenkins: Thomas Hornor, Glamorgan Historian, 7 (1971): 37–50 ;
   English builder, engraver & topographer, active in England & the United States; during his London years, settled in London by 1807. He lived in Kentish Town, Chancery Lane, and then Church Court, Inner Temple, whence he undertook valuations, surveys & levelling of canals; 1829-44 in New York.
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