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(Encyclopedia) Mun, Thomas mŭn [key], 1571–1641, English writer on economics. A merchant in Italy and the Levant, he became (1615) a director in the East India Company. In his Discourse of Trade from England unto...

(Encyclopedia) Abell or Abel, Thomas both: āˈbəl [key], d. 1540, English priest, chaplain to Katharine of Aragón. In 1528 he served as Katharine's secret envoy to her nephew, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, in con...

(Encyclopedia) Girtin, Thomas gûrˈtən [key], 1775–1802, English draftsman and watercolorist. He was apprenticed to an engraver but was employed, together with J. M. W. Turner, to make topographical drawings. Gi...

(Encyclopedia) De Keyser, Thomas: see Keyser, Thomas de. ...

(Encyclopedia) Celano, Thomas of: see Thomas of Celano. ...

(Encyclopedia) Aquinas, Saint Thomas: see Thomas Aquinas, Saint. ...

(Encyclopedia) Tilson Thomas, Michael: see Thomas, Michael Tilson. ...

(Encyclopedia) Beauchamp, Thomas de: see Warwick, Thomas de Beauchamp, earl of. ...

(Encyclopedia) Thomas, David Alfred: see Rhondda, David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount. ...

(Encyclopedia) Gawain, Sir gäˈwān, –wĭn [key], one of the most popular heroes of Arthurian legend; nephew of King Arthur. He was regarded, particularly in the early romances, as the model of chivalry—pure, b...