• Name: Northmore, Thomas
• Gender: Male
• Birth Date: November  1766
• Death Date: 29  May  1851
• Occupation: geologist
• Occupation: writer

See DNB.

The concentration of Northmore's appearances in the Diary in the 1790s sits a little uncomfortably with the DNB's suggestion that he took up permanent residence in Cleve House Devon on graduating - since he seems to be resident in London for at least 1794 and 1795). The circles he moves in in this period link him toThomas Brand Hollis and to other radicals (notably Frend, but also Merry, Thomas Walker from Manchester). On 3.1.1795 Gilbert Wakefield is among those dinning at Northcote's (Wakefield having been T Northcote's tutor in Cambridge (according to A Biographical Dictionary of the living authors); and in 1803 he dines with Godwin and Major Cartwright shortly after the trial and execution of Despard. There do not seem to be links to known chemists, which is one of the areas of Northmore's interests, although there is a dinner at his house with 3 professors from Caen. Given his interests in philosophy and utopian communities, it is plausible that this is the Northmore that Godwin knew.

'Northmore and son' appear in 1802 and there are later entries for 'Northmores' - there is a son from his first marriage, Thomas Welby Northmore, born in 1791, who predeceased him. His second marriage, in 1809 produced a son and nine daughters.

The New Letters of Robert Southey, ed. Curry, has reference to contact between Southey, Coleridge and Northmore in 1799, who, Southey writes, 'is an excellent man whom every body teaches me to esteem, but he has an obstinacy that would do honour to a pig' (vol. 1, p.201)

There is a note from Marshall to Northmore in July 1794 informing him that Godwin is away in the country (MS. Abinger c. 44, fol. 30: 4 July 1794)

• MS. Abinger c. 44 30 4 July 1794
• DNB
• John Watkins, A Biographical Dictionary of the Living Authors of Great Britain and Ireland (London, 1816)
• New Letters of Robert Southey, ed. by Kenneth Curry, 2 vols (New York: Columbia University Press, 1965)

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