Thomas Ross
1822–70
Optician and scientific instrument maker. At 2 and 3 Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn, London. Son of Andrew Ross. Took over his father’s business in 1859. Elected member of the Microscopical Society of London, 1859.
Sources
Post Office London directory 1861
London, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1917 Ancestry.com, accessed 29 August 2018
Turner 1989.
Bibliography
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Turner, Gerard L’E. 1989. The great age of the microscope: the collection of the Royal Microscopical Society though 150 years. Bristol and New York: Adam Hilger.
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