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See also:HOLLOWAY, 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 (1800-1883) , See also:English patent-See also:medicine vendor and philanthropist, was See also:born at See also:Devonport, on the 22nd of See also:September 1800, of humble parents. Until his twenty-eighth See also:year he lived at See also:Penzance, where he assisted his See also:mother and See also:brother in the See also:baker's See also:shop which his See also:father, once a See also:warrant officer in a See also:militia See also:regiment, had See also:left them at his See also:death. On coming to See also:London he made the acquaintance of See also:Felix Albinolo, an See also:Italian, from whom he obtained the See also:idea for the ointment which was to carry his name all over the See also:world. The See also:secret of his enormous success in business was due almost entirely to See also:advertisement, in the efficacy of which he had See also:great faith. He soon added the See also:sale of pills to that of the ointment, and began to devote the larger See also:part of his profits to advertising. Holloway's first newspaper announcement appeared on the 15th of See also:October 1837, and in 1842 his yearly expenses for publicity had reached the sum of £5000; this See also:expenditure went on steadily increasing as his sales increased, until it had reached the figure of £50,000 per annum at the 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 of his death. It is, however, chiefly by the two princely See also:foundations—the See also:Sanatorium and the See also:College for See also:Women at See also:Egham (q.v.), endowed by Holloway towards the See also:close of his See also:life—that his name will be perpetuated, more than a million See also:sterling having been set apart by him for the erection and permanent endowment of these institutions. In the See also:deed of See also:gift of the college the founder credited his wife, who died in 1875, with the See also:advice and counsel that led him to provide what he hoped might ultimately become the See also:nucleus of a university for women. The philanthropic and somewhat See also:eccentric donor (he had an unconcealed See also:prejudice against doctors, lawyers and See also:parsons) died of congestion of the lungs at Sunninghill on the 26th of See also:December 1883.
End of Article: HOLLOWAY, THOMAS (1800-1883)
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