Letter 2156

Thompson wants to know if he should add ‘twelve drachms’ more to a solution he is concocting. Maurice Thompson, 2nd Baron Haversham, (1675-1745) was a British politician and soldier. He assumed the title of baron and joined the House of Lords after the death of his father John Thompson, 1st Baron Haversham, in 1710. He also served as Treasurer of the Excise between 1717 and 1718 (G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 410).