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See also:GUY, 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 (1644–1724) , founder of Guy's See also:Hospital, See also:London, was the son of a lighterman and See also:coal-dealer at See also:Southwark. After serving an See also:apprenticeship of eight years with a bookseller, he in 1668 began business on his own See also:account. He dealt largely in Bibles, which had for many years been poorly and incorrectly printed in See also:England. These he at first imported from See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, but subsequently obtained from the university of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford the See also:privilege of See also:printing. Thus, and by an extremely thrifty mode of See also:life, and more particularly by investment in See also:government securities, the subscription of these into the See also:South See also:Sea See also:Company, and the subsequent See also:sale of his stock in 1720, he became See also:master of an immense See also:fortune. He died unmarried on the 17th of See also:December 1724. In 1707 he built three wards of St Thomas's Hospital, which institution he otherwise subsequently benefited; and at a cost of £18,793, 16s. he erected Guy's Hospital, leaving for its endowment £219,499; he also endowed See also:Christ's Hospital with £400 a See also:year, and in 1678 endowed almshouses at See also:Tamworth, his See also:mother's birthplace, which was represented by him in See also:parliament from 1695 to 1707. The See also:residue of his See also:estate, which went to distant relatives, amounted to about £8o,000.
See A True Copy of the Last Will and Testament of Thomas Guy, Esq. (London, 1725) ; J. Noorthouck, A New Hist. of London, bk. iii. ch. i. p. 684 (1773) ; See also:Nichols, See also:Literary Anecdotes, iii. 599 (1812) ; See also:Charles See also:Knight, Shadows of the Old Booksellers, pp. 3–23 (1865) ; and A See also:Biographical See also:History of Guy's Hospital, by S. Wilkes and G. T. Bettany (1892).
End of Article: GUY, THOMAS (1644–1724)
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