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See also:SIMPSON, 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 (1710-1761) , See also:English mathematician, was See also:born at See also:Market See also:Bosworth in See also:Leicestershire on the loth of See also:August 1710. His See also:father was a stuff See also:weaver, and, intending to bring his son up to his own business, took little care of the boy's See also:education. See also:Young Simpson was so eager for knowledge that he neglected his See also:weaving, and in consequence of a See also:quarrel was forced to leave his father's See also:house. He settled for a See also:short 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 at See also:Nuneaton at the house of a Mrs Swinfield, whom he afterwards married, where he met a pedlar who practised See also:fortune-telling. Simpson was induced to See also:cast nativities himself, and soon became the See also:oracle of the neighbourhood; but he became convinced of the imposture of See also:astrology, and he abandoned this calling. After a See also:residence of two or three years at See also:Derby, where be worked as a weaver during the See also:day and taught pupils in the evenings, he went to See also:London. The number of his pupils in-creased; his abilities became more widely known; and he was enabled to publish by subscription his See also:Treatise of Fluxions in 1737. This treatise abounded with errors of the See also:press, and contained several obscurities and defects incidental to the author's want of experience and the disadvantages under which
His first See also:play, Crutch and Toothpick, was produced at the See also:Royalty See also:Theatre in See also:April 1879, and was followed by a number of plays of which he was author or See also:part-author. After See also:long runs at See also:west end houses, many of these became stock pieces in suburban and provincial theatres. His most famous melodramas were: The See also:Lights of London (Princess's theatre, See also:September 1881), which ran for nearly a See also:year; In the Ranks (Adelphi, Oct. 1883), written with H. Pettit, which ran for 457 nights; See also:Harbour Lights (1885), which ran for 513 nights; Two Little Vagabonds (Princess's Theatre, 1896–1897). He was part-author with See also:Cecil See also:Raleigh of the See also:burlesque See also:opera, Little See also:Christopher See also:Columbus (1893), and among his musical plays were See also:Blue-eyed Susan (See also:Prince of See also:Wales's, 1892) and The See also:Dandy Fifth (See also:Birmingham, 1898). His See also:early volumes of See also:light See also:verse were very popular, notably The Dagonet See also:Ballads (1882), reprinted from the See also:Referee. How the Poor Live (1883) and his articles on the See also:housing of the poor in the Daily See also:News helped to arouse public See also:opinion on the subject, which was dealt with in the See also:act of 1885.
End of Article: SIMPSON, THOMAS (1710-1761)
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