Philip Thicknesse

A 1790 caricature of Philip Thicknesse, trampling on moral and religious duties, his person covered with defamatory inscriptions
Thomas Gainsborough, Ann Ford, later Mrs Philip Thicknesse, 1760

Captain Philip Thicknesse (1719 – 23 November 1792) was a British Army officer and writer who was a friend of the artist Thomas Gainsborough.[1] He wrote several travel guides.

  1. ^ Katherine Turner, Thicknesse, Philip (1719–1792), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Online ed., retrieved 12 January 2008.