Born Ashton under Lyme, Lancashire. Maker of watches and chronometers. Lived and worked mainly in London and Greenwich. He seems to have been a bitter man with whom it was unpleasant to do business. Died at home in Chenies Street, buried at St Giles-in-the-Fields, Bloomsbury.
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Thomas Earnshaw
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Thomas Earnshaw
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