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Thomas Mortimer (1730–1810) was an English writer, known for his works in the field of economics. LifeHe was the son of Thomas Mortimer (1706–1741), principal secretary to Sir Joseph Jekyll, the Master of the Rolls, and grandson of John Mortimer, and was born on 9 December 1730 in Carey Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. His mother died in 1744, and he was left under the guardianship of John Baker of Spitalfields.[1] Mortimer went to Harrow School, under James Cox, and then to a private academy in the north, but was largely self-taught. In 1750 he published An Oration on the much lamented death of H.R.H. Frederick, Prince of Wales, and began to study elocution. He also learnt French and Italian for his study of modern history.[1] In November 1762 Mortimer was made English vice-consul for the Austrian Netherlands, on the recommendation of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, secretary of state, and went to Ostend. He hoped for the consulship; but Robert Wood was more successful at intrigue, as under-secretary to Lord Weymouth, and Mortimer was dismissed from his post in 1768, as a Wilkite;[1] John Wilkes was known to be a personal friend of Mortimer.[2] He returned to England, resumed his writing, and worked as a private tutor.[1] Mortimer died on 31 March 1810 in Clarendon Square, Somers Town, London.[1] WorksMortimer was a voluminous writer, mainly on economic subjects. His largest work was The British Plutarch (6 vols. 1762; 2nd ed., revised and enlarged, 1774). It was translated into French as Le Plutarque anglais by Cornélie Wouters, baronne de Vasse (1785-6, Paris, 12 vols.), which contained British biographies from Henry VIII to George II.[1][3] Besides pamphlets, Mortimer's economic publications were:[1]
His New History of England, dedicated to Queen Charlotte, appeared (London 3 vols.) 1764–6. Mortimer published revised editions of his grandfather John Mortimer's Whole Art of Husbandry in 1761, and of Wyndham Beawes's Lex Mercatoria in 1783.[1] In 1751 he translated from the French Jean-Baptiste Jourdan's 1749 Life and Exploits of Pyrrhus.[6][7] He also translated Jacques Necker's Treatise on the Finances of France, London 3 vols., 1785.[1][8] FamilyMortimer married twice, and had a large family. A son, George, captain in the Royal Marines, published in 1791 Observations during a Voyage in the South Seas and elsewhere in the brig "Mercury," commanded by J. H. Cox, esq..[1] Notes1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 {{cite DNB|wstitle=Mortimer, Thomas|volume=39}} 2. ^Harry William Pedicord, Mr. and Mrs. Garrick: Some Unpublished Correspondence, PMLA Vol. 60, No. 3 (Sep. 1945), pp. 775–783, at p. 779 note 20. Published by: Modern Language Association. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/459177 3. ^{{cite book|author=Collectif|title=Index Du Journal Encyclopedique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cReaKJ_uCdEC&pg=PA228|publisher=Slatkine|page=228|id=GGKEY:CSEY0KTAH99}} 4. ^1 {{cite book|author=Robert J. Bennett|title=Local Business Voice: The History of Chambers of Commerce in Britain, Ireland, and Revolutionary America, 1760–2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYp9tK-V7-oC&pg=PA98|date=27 October 2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-958473-4|page=98, and note 24}} 5. ^Henry Trueman Wood, A History of the Royal Society of Arts (1913), p. 7 note 1; [https://archive.org/stream/historyofroyalso00woodrich#page/6/mode/2up archive.org.] 6. ^{{cite book|author=Library of Congress|title=Catalogue of Books Added to the Library of Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trxSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA288|year=1872|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=288}} 7. ^{{cite book|author=Eduard Maria Oettinger|title=Bibliographie biographique|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qfNJAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA543|year=1850|publisher=G. Engelmann|page=543}} 8. ^{{cite book|author=Stephen Mark Caffey|title=An Heroics of Empire: Benjamin West and Anglophone History Painting 1764—1774|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nQKAAkf1g-wC&pg=PA246|year=2008|publisher=ProQuest|isbn=978-0-549-77858-5|pages=246 note 37}}
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