| LC control no. | n 79062891 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Thoms, William John, 1803-1885 |
| Variant(s) | Thoms, W. J. (William John), 1803-1885 Thoms, Wm. J. (William John), 1803-1885 |
| See also | Alternate identity: Merton, Ambrose, 1803-1885 |
| Birth date | 1803-11-16 |
| Death date | 1885-08-15 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Learning and scholarship Editing Photography |
| Affiliation | Society of Antiquaries of London Camden Society (Great Britain) Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords Photographic Society Club |
| Profession or occupation | Antiquarians Editors Photographers |
| Found in | His A collection of early prose romances, 1827-28. His The book of the court, 1844: t.p. (William J. Thoms) NUC pre-56 (hdg: Thoms, William John, 1803-1885; usage: William J. Thoms; Wm. J. Thoms; Ambrose Merton; Amb. Mer.; W.J. Thoms) Rules of the Photographic Society Club, 1856: leaf 5 recto (in list of members: "William J. Thoms Esq., F.S.A.") Oxford DNB, June 2, 2014 (Thoms, William John (1803-1885), antiquary; born in Westminster, London, on 16 November 1803; clerk in the secretary's office at Chelsea Hospital until 1844; published Early prose romances, 1827-1828; elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, 1838; appointed the first secretary of the Camden Society, 1838, a post he held until 1873; appointed a clerk of the House of Lords on 19 July 1845; in 1846, under the pseudonym Ambrose Merton, he published two volumes of tales and ballads; started the periodical Notes and queries, 1849; appointed assistant librarian of the House of Lords, 1862; died in London on 15 August 1885) Seiberling, Grace. Amateurs, photography and the Victorian imagination, 1986: page 146 (in Biographical appendix, by Carolyn Bloore: founded Notes and queries in 1849; it became an important vehicle for communications on photography in 1852, with contributions by H.W. Diamond ; Thoms's photographs pictured monuments or objects of antiquarian interest; he seems to have given up photographic activity after 1850s) |
| Associated language | eng |
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