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Major Robert Lawrence Thornton, son of Robert Thornton and Elizabeth Ann Thornton [Metcalfe]

Major R. Lawrence Thornton, D.L., J.P., of High Cross, Framfield had an extensive life of public duty including being a barrister of the Inner Temple, High Sheriff of Sussex in 1900, Justice of the Peace in 1892, President of the Royal Sussex County Hospital and a member of the East Sussex County Council for forty years. He was Chairman of the Diocesan Finance Board and a member of the House of Layman as well as being churchwarden and choirmaster of Framfield Church for twenty years. In sport he was President of the Sussex County Cricket Club and secretary of the South Saxon Society for Lawn Tennis and Croquet. He was awarded the CBE as result of his activities in the defence of the country which stretched back to his war service from 1880 to 1901 with the 3rd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. In Freemasonry he was Provincial Grand Master for Sussex, Grand Superintendent of Sussex and many other distinctions.

See also Major Thornton published in 1936.

Date

Type

Information

Source

17^th Sep 1865

Born

At Dulwich in the County of Surrey

1901 Census
Framfield, Sussex

14^th Aug 1890

Married

In the County of Essex

IGI - Family Search

19^th Mar 1947

Died

Registered at Uckfield District, Sussex; ref: 1947 Q1 Vol 5h Page 587; aged 81 years

Jan to Mar 1896

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Uckfield, Sussex; registered at Uckfield District, Sussex; ref: 1896 Q1 Vol 2b Page123

1901 Census
Framfield, Sussex

July to Sep 1898

Birth of a son

In the Parish of Framfield, Sussex; registered at Uckfield District, Sussex; ref: 1898Q3 Vol 2b Page 128

1901 Census
Framfield, Sussex

Robert Thornton

m: 28^th Oct 1862 St.Mary, Lambeth, London

Elizabeth Metcalfe

b: 1838 Surrey

b: 1840 London

Constance Elizabeth

Florence Mary

Major Robert Lawrence

b: 1863 Oak Villas, Gipsy Hill, Lower Norwood, Surrey
ch: 12^th Jul 1863 St Lukes, Norwood

b: 1864 Oak Villas, Gipsy Hill, Lower Norwood, Surrey
ch: 22^nd Nov 1864 St Lukes, Norwood

b: 17^th Sep 1865 Dulwich, Surrey
d: 19^th Mar 1947

Parental record

Major Robert Lawrence Thornton
D.L., J.P.

m: 14^th Aug 1890 Essex

Charlotte Raynes

b: 17^th Sep 1865 Dulwich, Surrey
d: 19^th Mar 1947

b: 1866 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Robert West

Gerald Edward

b: Jan to Mar 1896 Uckfield, Sussex
d: 16^th Jun 1915 Sussex

b: Jul to Sep 1898 Framfield, Sussex

Family record

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