Thorn, Romaine Joseph

Author: Thorn, Romaine Joseph

Biography:

THORN, Romaine Joseph (c. 1764-1850: ancestry.co.uk)

Although a very prolific author, he has left few biographical traces. He lived in both Cork and Bristol where he died on 18 Aug. 1850, aged 86. There are two records of marriage, both in Cork: one in 1806 to Mary Anne Watkins, and the other in 1811 to Mary Anne Daunt (d 1872). He had at least one child, William Henry Romaine Thorn, who in 1853 was arrested and convicted of theft; the trial was widely reported in newspapers. Romaine Thorn’s death notice describes him as having been a clerk to Henry Cruger, MP for Bristol 1774-80 and 1784-90. Subsequently Thorn was employed at a mercantile house. (ancestry.co.uk 30 Nov. 2021; Bristol Times and Mirror 31 Aug. 1850; Wexford Independent 27 July 1853)

Other Names:

R. J. Thorn

Books written (10):

Clito and Delia, a Poem.

[London]: Longman, 1793

The Mad Gallop, or, A Trip to Devizes: being an Humorous Description of an Excursion to that Place, Taken by the Inhabitants of Bath, Bristol, &c. : Humbly Attempted in Hudibrastic Verse.

Bristol: Printed for, and sold by Owen Rees, No. 10, Wine Street, [1793]

Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry

Author: Thorn, Romaine Joseph

Biography:

Other Names:

Books written (10):

Clito and Delia, a Poem.

The Mad Gallop, or, A Trip to Devizes: being an Humorous Description of an Excursion to that Place, Taken by the Inhabitants of Bath, Bristol, &c. : Humbly Attempted in Hudibrastic Verse.

Retirement, a Poem.

Bristolia, a Poem.

Howe Triumphant! or, the Glorious First of June. An Heroic Poem.

Christmas. A Poem.

Lodon and Miranda . . . . To Which is Added the "Poor Boy," a Tale.

Poems, Very Considerably Enlarged . . . .

The Rhyme Bag, or, Poetical Depot.

Lorenzo: A Tale.