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On This Day 23 December 1765, Henry Thrale became MP for Southwark

22/12/2020

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Close friend to Samuel Johnson and owner of a brewery in Southwark and resident at "Streatham Park/Place" situated in the Furzedown area of Streatham. 
Educated at Eton and Oxford. His coffin is in the crypt of St Leonard's Church next to his mother-in-law
Picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Houghton Library, Harvard University
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