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See also:BERNARD, See also:SIR See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS, See also:BART . (1750—1818), See also:English social reformer, was See also:born at See also:Lincoln on the 27th of See also:April 1750, the younger son of Sir See also:Francis Bernard, 1st See also:hart. (1711-1779), who as See also:governor of See also:Massachusetts See also:Bay (1760—1770) played a responsible See also:part in directing the See also:British policy which led to the revolt of the See also:American colonies. On the See also:death of his See also:elder See also:brother in 181o, Bernard succeeded to the baronetcy conferred on his See also:father in 1769. I-Iis See also:early See also:education was obtained in See also:America, partly at Harvard, in which See also:college his father took a See also:great See also:interest. He then acted as confidential secretary to hisfather during the troubles which led (1769) to the governor's recall, and accompanied Sir Francis to See also:England, where he was called to the See also:bar, and practised as a conveyancer. He married a See also:rich wife, and acquired a considerable See also:fortune, and then devoted most of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to social See also:work for the benefit of the poor. He was treasurer of the Foundling See also:Hospital, in the concerns of which he took an important part. He helped to establish in 1796 the " Society for Bettering the See also:Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor," in 1800 a school for indigent See also:blind, and in 18o1 a See also:fever institution. He was active in promoting See also:vaccination, improving the conditions of See also:child labour, advocating rural allotments, and agitating against the See also:salt duties. He took great interest in education, and with See also:Count See also:Rumford he was an originator of the Royal Institution in See also:London. He died without issue on the 1st of See also:July 1818.
End of Article: BERNARD, SIR THOMAS, BART
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