Thomas Northmore

Thomas Northmore FSA (1766–1851) was an English writer, inventor and geologist.

He was born at Cleve[2] in the parish of St Thomas, Exeter, in Devon, the eldest son of Thomas Northmore of Cleve, by his wife Elizabeth Osgood, daughter and heiress of Richard Osgood of Fulham.

He was educated at Blundell's School in Tiverton, Devon, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.

He retired to cultivate his paternal estate, where he lived for the rest of his life, spending time on mechanics, literature, and politics.

[3] His works include: [3] In Nicholson's Journal he wrote on Effects on Gases by change in their Habitudes, or elective Attractions, when mechanically compressed, 1805 (vol.