1. Sir Thomas Urquhart was a Scottish aristocrat, writer, and translator.
13 Facts About Thomas Urquhart
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Thomas Urquhart is best known for his translation of the works of French Renaissance writer Francois Rabelais to English.
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Thomas Urquhart left for the Continent in order to economize, but returned in 1645 and published Trissotetras, a mathematical treatise.
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In 1648, Thomas Urquhart participated in the Royalist uprising at Inverness.
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Thomas Urquhart was declared a traitor by Parliament, though he doesn't seem to have suffered any other consequences.
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The Royalist forces were decisively defeated and Thomas Urquhart was taken prisoner.
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Thomas Urquhart lost all his manuscripts, which he had brought with him for safekeeping, and he had to forfeit all his property.
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Thomas Urquhart was held first at the Tower of London and later at Windsor, but he was given considerable freedom by his captors.
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Thomas Urquhart returned to the Continent some time after 1653, perhaps as a condition of his release by Cromwell.
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Thomas Urquhart died no later than 1660, because in that year his younger brother took up his hereditary titles.
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Thomas Urquhart's sentences are long and elaborate, and his love of the odd and recondite word seems boundless.
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Thomas Urquhart coined words constantly, although none of Urquhart's coinages have fared as well as those of his contemporary Browne.
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Thomas Urquhart appears as a major character in the novel A Hand-book of Volapuk by Andrew Drummond.