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{{Infobox person | name = William Henry Toms | birth_date = c. 1700 | death_date = 12 September 1765 | death_place = Westminster | occupation = Engraver | children = Peter Toms }}William Henry Toms (c. 1700–1765) was an English engraver. He worked on portraits, book-plates, landscapes and prints of buildings. Among his works were the plates for Robert West's "Perspective Views of All the Ancient Churches in London" (1736–1739).{{sfn|Redgrave|1878|pp=433,465}} In 1741, he worked with Thomas Badeslade on "Chorographia Britanniae or a New Set of Maps of all the Counties in England and Wales". The maps were republished on 29 September 1742, with additional place names. Among Toms's apprentices was the engraver and publisher John Boydell.{{sfn|Getty Research Institute}} W. H. Toms lived in Masham Street, London, and was the father of the painter Peter Toms.{{sfn|Godfrey|Wagner|1963}} Toms died in 1765.{{sfn|Potten|2004}} ReferencesCitationsSources- {{citation |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/bk16/pp203-209 |first1=Walter H. |last1=Godfrey |first2=Anthony |last2=Wagner |chapter=Portcullis Pursuivant |title=Survey of London Monograph 16, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street |place=London |date=1963 |pages=203–209 |publisher=British History Online |accessdate= 11 June 2016 }}
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- {{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |first1=Ed |last1=Potten |title=Toms, William Henry (d. 1765) |date=May 2014 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/50872 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/50/101050872/ }}
- {{cite encyclopedia|title=Toms, William Henry, engraver|encyclopedia=A Dictionary of Artists of the English School|first1=Samuel|last1=Redgrave|authorlink=Samuel Redgrave|first2=Frances Margaret|last2=Redgrave|date=1878|page=433|publisher=George Bell & Sons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hsGAAAAQAAJ&lpg=PA433}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&page=1&subjectid=500009753|title=Toms, William Henry|publisher=Getty Research Institute |ref={{harvid|Getty Research Institute}} }}
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