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	Thomas Tompion Clocks and Biography
		One famous name dominates the great period of English clocks in the 17th century, that of Thomas Tompion, who gave to the clockmaking craft the skill and genius of a wonderful artist, for artist he was most emphatically, and was recognised as such at the court of Charles II.
		Tompion was born in 1638 and died in 1713, and the clocks and watches he made created a reputation for English work even in those lands of accomplished craftsmanship, France and Germany.
		Thomas Tompion, according to the records of the Clockmakers' Company was born in North-hill, Bedfordshire, and is said to have been originally a flsmith.
	www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/thomas-tompion.html (758 words)

	Country Life : Country News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Tompion made 13 grande-sonnerie spring clocks but only four of them, including the one in Sotheby's sale, were housed in red-turtle shell cases with English ormolu mounts, the auction house said.
		The clock was made during the partnership of Thomas Tompion and Edward Banger (the husband of Tompion's niece, Margaret Kent) and has been finished to a particularly high standard, in keeping with other models made during the partnership.
		Thomas Tompion was born the son of a flsmith at Ickfield Green - a hamlet in the small parish of Northill, Bedfordshire - and it seems that he was originally trained as a flsmith, along with his younger brother.
	www.countrylife.co.uk /countrysideconcerns/news/tompion.php (649 words)

	Gordon S. Converse and Company - Antiques and Fine Clocks - The Hudson Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Thomas Tompion was born in 1639, and the height of his career took him into the early 18th century.
		Apparently Tompion was such a character, being an unsurpassed craftsman from his youthful beginnings as a flsmith's son, yet also travelling with royalty, working with scientific geniuses like Dr. Robert Hooke, and all the time forming partnerships with the likes of George Graham, Daniel Quare and Edward Banger.
		Tompion died at the age of 74 in 1713 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
	www.converseclocks.com /hudson.asp?m=i&k=261 (605 words)

	A comparison of the lives and work of THOMAS TOMPION and JOSEPH KNIBB
		Tompion's business was now firmly established and supported by the Royal patronage, his clients included the aristocracy and wealthy merchants of the times.
		Tompion collaborated with Marot to produce a number of royal clocks, some for the personal use of the King and Queen and several they requisitioned as gifts to their royal counterparts in Europe and as far field as Tunisia.
		It is another of Tompion's wonderfully flamboyant clocks made for King William as a presentation clock, at the end of Tompion's golden period, when he was the master clockmaker in Europe.
	www.antique-horology.org /_Editorial/woodburntompionknibb/TompionKnibb.htm (3535 words)

	Art Collection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Thomas Tompion (1639-1716), who worked in Fleet Street, was a master watch and clock-maker whose attention to detail was legendary
		Tompion rapidly became known as one of the finest watch and clock makers in London receiving notice from Charles II.
		Tompion died on the 20th November 1713 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.
	www.art.mod.uk /picture_pages/tompion.htm (157 words)

	George Graham Clocks and Biography
		Of George Graham, apprentice, partner, nephew by marriage, successor, and executor, to Thomas Tompion, much might be written.
		Tompion, in the value and variety of his inventions is a fact, and he was acknowledged to be the foremost horologist of his time.
		He was subsequently employed by Thomas Tompion, and married Elizabeth, who was the daughter of James Tompion, brother to Thomas.
	www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/george-graham.html (342 words)

	The British Masters of Timekeeping: Part 1 of 4 - Introduction [2000] - TimeZone
		Thomas Tompion was born in London in 1639, and is the man considered by many to be the father of British watchmaking.
		Tompion was chosen, in 1675, to provide the timepieces for the Greenwich Royal Observatory.
		The timepieces constructed by Tompion were pivotal for the calculations made by the team of astronomers at the observatory.
	www.timezone.com /library/itsabouttime/itsabout631674622086598934 (647 words)

	Tompion, Tompion watches, Thomas Tompion, British Masters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Tompion is a fairly new brand, having been resurrected in 1997 to pay tribute to the great British horologist Thomas Tompion.
		As important an innovator to modern watchmaking as Abraham Loius Beguet, Tompion invented the cylindrical escapement, which was an important step toward transitioning from pocket to wrist watches.
		Tompion earned burial in Westminster Abbey, an acknowledment of his contributions to British scientific history.
	www.watchfinder.net /brands/tompion.htm (92 words)

	Thomas Tompion -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Tompion is believed to have worked as a flsmith until 1664, when he was apprenticed to a London clockmaker.
		The son of Lebanese immigrants, U.S. radio, screen, and television comedian Danny Thomas was born Muzyab Rakhoob on Jan. 6, 1914, in Deerfield, Mich. He starred in the 1950s and 1960s television situation comedy Make Room for Daddy (renamed The Danny Thomas Show in 1957), winning an Emmy award in 1955.
		The dramatist and poet Thomas Godfrey was a playwright and poet in colonial America.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9072840 (584 words)

	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Tompion made 13 grande-sonnerie spring clocks but only four of them, including the one in Sotheby’s sale, were housed in splendid red-turtle shell cases with English ormolu mounts.
		Thomas Tompion (1639-1713) was born the son of a flsmith at Ickfield Green — a hamlet in the small parish of Northill, Bedfordshire — and it seems that he was originally trained as a flsmith, along with his younger brother.
		Tompion began to move in important circles, and in 1675, a watch he made for Robert Hooke — the greatest English experimental scientist of the 17th century — was shown to Charles II.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20030424-107433.cfm (1206 words)

	The Golden Age of English Clockmaking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The magnificent ebonised, quarter-repeating example by Thomas Tompion has a strike/silent facility so that the bell can be silenced when required.
		Tompion's work contributed to raising the standards and innovativeness of English Horology to new heights.
		The backplate of the movement is profusely engraved with a ‘wheatsheaf’ cartouche surrounding the signature ‘Tho Tompion, Londini Fecit’.
	www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk /sebc/visit/englishclockmaking.cfm (998 words)

	The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
		Tompion her Husband desired him to lend him a Sword, and that he would let it be a good one, to which he readily consented, and brought her one with a Silver Hilt, saying there's a Sword will see the Devil out.
		Tompion turn'd away her Face, that she then had on a Suit of Callicoe, but when she was taken she had a Gown of her Husbands on.
		Thomas Belsenger, of St. Dunstan at Stepney was indicted for committing a Rape on the Body of Martha Gilbert, of about 16 Years of Age, on the 30th of September last.
	www.oldbaileyonline.org /html_sessions/T17201012.html (7298 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Employee, and later partner, of Thomas Tompion, 1695-1713, marrying Tompion's niece.
		Thomas Tompion treated him with utmost kindness as a virtual member of the family, and he eventually succeeded to Tompion's business as his heir.
		With Tompion he made an "orrery," the original one from which the name comes, for the Earl of Orrery.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/graham.html (635 words)

	Movement by Thomas Tompion: Longcase Clock (1999.48.2) \| Object Page \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		Case: oak, veneered with oystershell-cut olivewood and marquetry panels of green-stained bone, ivory, and various woods, gilt-brass mounts; Dial: brass, partly gilded and partly silvered; Movement: brass and steel; 77 x 17 x 19 in.
		Tompion combined the technical advances made by English clockmakers with his own superb workmanship and ingenious designs to produce timepieces that contributed vastly to the fame of English clockmaking in the second half of the seventeenth century.
		The dial indicates hours and minutes subdivided into ten-second intervals (on the silvered chapter ring), calendrical information (in various apertures), and the phases, aspects, and age of the moon in its monthly cycle, as well as the times of high tide at London Bridge (on the central revolving disk).
	www.metmuseum.org /TOAH/ho/09/euwb/hod_1999.48.2.htm (208 words)

	Tompion
		Thomas Tompion was arguably England's greatest watch and clock maker; born in 1639 and trained as a flsmith (which at the time was the nearest thing there was to an engineer) he became Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in 1703.
		The Grand National, regarded as the most difficult steeplechase race in the world, became the centrepiece of weekends at the house for many years and around 125 years ago the annual winding ceremony was incorporated into this weekend.
		The Tompion was in its own catalogue and was scheduled to be sold after the regular watch and clock auction; as is normal with items of such importance the catalogue had no estimate, instead potential buyers were instructed to contact the department for further details.
	www.ukwatches.com /Notes/tompion.htm (900 words)

	Tompion, grandfather clock - TOMPION - Thomas. London. born 1639, died 1713.
		A tompion is a plug in a flute or an organ pipe, used to modulate the tone.
		Thomas Tompion was born in 1639, and the height of his career took him into Tompion died at the age of 74 in 1713 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
		The plug [tompion] was of cork with a brass top to it, Tompion fragments struck a soldier in the front rank and penetrated into his lung,
	grandfather-clock.allinfosites.com /q/grandfather-clock-tompion.htm (639 words)

	TOMPION - Thomas. London. born 1639, died 1713.
		Banger was nephew, apprentice and assistant of Tompion, senior.
		Nephew and, from 1696, pupil of Tompion, senior, and succeeded him in his business.
		Long case clock Virginia M. signed 'Thomas Tompion and George Graham.' v.
	www.datacomm.ch /rbu/TOMPION.html (261 words)

	Thomas Finch Bracket Clock - Topic Powered by Groupee Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		The maker, Thomas Finch, London, is marked on the back plate which is highly engraved.
		I suspect the clock to be from the 1700-1750 period.
		I think it might be the later of the two Thomas Finch's listed in Baillie's or it's a very late clock for the earlier one.....
	nawcc-mb.infopop.cc /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4166015461/m/224108953 (1152 words)

	Graham, George(s) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This eighteen-year friendship and partnership (Tompion died in 1713), resulted in a substantial number of watches[2] and clocks, but also several innovations and improvements to escapements, and not long after their meeting, George married Tompion’s niece Elizabeth.
		After Tompion died, Graham inherited the business and expanded his interests to include astronomy and physics.
		With Tompion, he built an orrery (a mechanical model of the solar system) in the early part of the eighteenth century for the Earl of Orrery.
	kmoddl.library.cornell.edu /biographies/Graham/index.php (612 words)

	Crunruh Books Centuries of Style: Clocks
		Finely crafted with breathtaking precision, the clocks of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are among the most beautiful ever made.
		the works of Thomas Tompion and John Harrison, two of the foremost clockmakers of the era, are outstanding both as aesthetic objects and as scientific horological masterpieces.
		Technology has wrought is own changes on the design of timepieces: recently, electrification and quartz technology have miniaturized clocks and ensured that accuracy is unsurpassed.
	crunruh.zoovy.com /product/1840131276 (140 words)

	Introduction to Object ID: part 1
		This may be the name of a known individual (e.g., Thomas Tompion), a company (e.g., Tiffany & Co.), or cultural group (e.g., Hopi).
		Knowing the name of the Maker can help to narrow a database search to objects made by that person, company, etc. Moreover, associating an object with a named individual can greatly enhance its historic significance and in some instances its value.
		It can be used as an authority file (see Type of Object) and as a searching tool that enhances retrieval of multiple versions of names.
	icom.museum /objectid/guide/guide_maker.html (817 words)

	Northill: Thomas Tompion - Digitised Resources - Bedfordshire's Virtual Library
		Northill: Thomas Tompion - Digitised Resources - Bedfordshire's Virtual Library
		Thomas Tompion was born at Ickwell Green, near Northill in 1639.
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	www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk /webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/northill_digitisation_people_tompion_about.htm (163 words)

	Orrery signed Edward Beavess, made by Benjamin Cole, London, circa 1760 (tellurium) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
		This type of geared model of the solar system, or tellurium, traces its origin to an instrument devised by George Graham and Thomas Tompion in 1712.
		That model was soon copied and improved by John Rowley, their neighbor in Fleet Street, and "Master of Mechanics" to George I. Rowley also made many instruments for Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, who bequeathed his collection to Christ Church, Oxford in 1731.
		Rowley was succeeded by his former apprentice, Thomas Wright (d.1767) whose trade card depicts an orrery similar to this example.
	www.snellenburg.com /Newpages/Sci_instr/orrery/orrery_beavess.htm (427 words)

	MyAncestry.org
		East of the green is the cottage where Thomas Tompion, the father of English clock making, was born.
		Although many ancestors have births, marriages, or deaths recorded in Northill, it’s possible that the genealogical researchers who did the research didn’t properly differentiate between Northill Parish and the village of Northill.
		The Church is noted for the clock built by Tompion, the father of English clock making, and a 17th century glass window.
	myancestry.org /places/northill.htm (717 words)

	Newcastlecompany.com - The Royal Clock
		Sources from around the world contributed to the reproduction of Tompion's masterpiece.
		Commissioned by William III King of England in 1699, the ROYAL CLOCK built by Thomas Tompion, the father of English clock making, is considered by many to be the finest tallcase clock in the world.
		Remaining in the Royal Family until the reign of Queen Victoria, the original now resides in the Dewitt-Wallace Museum at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.
	www.newcastlecompany.com /royalclock (159 words)

	Thomas Tompion
		When the Royal Observatory at Greenwich was established in 1676, Tompion was chosen to make two clocks, to be wound only once a year, which proved to be more accurate timepieces than those available to other observatories.
		Utilizing the new inventions of the cylinder escapement (which enabled the making of flat watches) and the balance spring (discovered by Robert Hooke), he raised clockmaking and watchmaking to a fine art.
		Several of his clocks survive and still run.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0849011.html (77 words)

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	Howard Miller 612-436 - Thomas Tompion Mantel Clock - Howard Miller 612-436 - Accent Furniture Direct
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		Thomas Tompion, a founding member of England’s famed Clockmaker’s Guild of the 1630s.
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	AllRefer.com - Thomas Tompion (Technology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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