| LC control no. | n 85062417 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650? |
| Associated country | Great Britain |
| Birth date | 1601 |
| Death date | 1650? |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Shorthand Penmanship |
| Profession or occupation | Stenographers |
| Found in | His Zeiglographia, or, A new art of short-writing never before published, 1650: t.p. (Thomas Shelton) DNB (hdg.: Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650?) UnM/Wing files (hdg.: Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650? ; usage: Thomas Shelton) LC in OCLC, 2-18-86 (hdg.: Shelton, Thomas, 1601-1650?) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, viewed 26 September 2016 (Shelton, Thomas (1600/01-1650?), stenographer; probably the most famous shorthand inventor of his day, he was teaching in London from the early 1620s until his death, probably in London some time early in 1650; in 1630 he was living in Cheapside, but by 1642 had moved to Old Fish Street and by 1645 to The Poultry; his writing system was in use until at least the late eighteenth century, when it was employed by Thomas Jefferson) |
| Associated language | eng |
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