Robert Thorne (merchant)
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Robert Thorne the younger was a sixteenth-century Bristol merchant. He is best known for both promoting exploration voyages in the 1520s and for co-founding Bristol Grammar School, along with his brot
Portrait of Robert Thorne in Bristol Grammar School. A 1624 copy of the original, now lost.
Paul Withypoll, Thorne's master (1514)
Portrait of Nicholas Thorne, Bristol Grammar School
St Bartholomew's Hospital is the site of a medieval monastery hospital at the bottom of Christmas Steps, in Lewin's Mead, Bristol, England. It has been designated as a grade II listed building.
Robert Thorne (merchant)
…grammar school. This school would become Bristol Grammar School. It received a royal charter from Henry VIII on 17 March 1532. The school was located in St Bartholomew's Hospital, at the bottom of Christmas Steps. Thorne, along with his brother, Nicholas, are regarded as founders of the school, with the school's motto Ex Spinis…
St Bartholomew's Hospital buildings, Bristol DSC 2166