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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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M.P. for York, and Colonel of the West Biding Militia. 
Thomas Thornton was born in London in 1757, and educated 
at the Charterhouse and Glasgow University. On succeeding 
to his father’s estates he devoted great attention to sports, 
including falconry. He was appointed Colonel of his father’s 
old regiment, but resigned in 1795. His sporting tour to the 
Highlands was undertaken in 1786 ; he chartered a sloop for 
the expedition and proceeded partly by sea and partly by 
land, devoting his time to hunting, shooting, angling, and 
hawking. He also made two visits to France, on the latter 
of which he was introduced to Napoleon. His experiences 
were later published in A Sporting Tour in France (1806). 
After disposing of Thornville Eoyal to Lord Stourton in 1805 
Thornton resided in Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, and Wiltshire. 
He subsequently revisited France, and after Waterloo pur- 
chased an estate and rented the Chateau of Chambord, styling 
himself Prince de Chambord and Marquis de Pont. He sold 
his estate in 1821 to Casimir Perier, and lived in lodgings in 
Paris until his death on March 10, 1823. 
The undermentioned work contains much information on 
falconry, especially Grouse-hawking, Snipe-hawking, Kite- 
hawking, etc. He mentions (p. 107) eyries of the Goshawk 
in the Forest of Kothiemurchus. 
1804. A Sporting Tonr through the Northern Parts of England and great 
part of the Highlands of Scotland. . . . By Colonel T. Thornton, 
of Thornville Royal, in Yorkshire. [Quotation.] London : [etc.] 
1804. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. xxii un. +pp. 312 + pp. 5 un. +16 pi. 
Idem. Reissued in 1896 in Sir Herbert Maxwell’s Sporting 
Library. 
Thurn (E. F. Im). See Im Thurn (E. F.) 
Ticehurst (Norman Frederick), nat. 1873 
N. F. Ticehurst is the eldest son of the late Augustus 
Eowland Ticehurst, M.E.C.S., formerly of St. Leonards-on- 
Sea, and Huntbourne, High Halden, Kent. He was born in 
1873, and educated at Tonbridge School and Clare College, 
