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(Encyclopedia) Kensington and Chelsea, inner borough (1991 pop. 127,600) of Greater London, SE England. Kensington is largely residential with fashionable shopping streets and several luxurious hotels. Portobello Ro...

(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. ...