Thomas Norton LONGMAN
- Born: 1771
- Died: 1842
- Grave/memorial: CH 87
Bookseller and publisher of the City of London, 42 years an inhabitant of this parish…. This monument has been erected by his personal friends to record their deep sense of the many excellencies that distinguished his private character and of the advantages conferred on literature by the ability, integrity and enterprise which he displayed as head, for more than half a century, of the first publishing house in the United Kingdom.’ Longman was great-nephew of the eponymous founder of the family firm in Paternoster Row and son of Thomas Longman [1730-97] who came to Hampstead c 1792. T N Longman lived at Manor House, Frognal, from c 1804 and moved to Mount Grove, Greenhill, c 1817. Here he entertained Scott, Southey, Coleridge etc., grew pineapples and other hothouse fruit and died worth £200, 000 – after being thrown from his horse in St Pancras [some say Haverstock Hill]. The family vault is at Friern Barnet.
Lived: Manor House Frognal and Mount Grove Greenhill
Reference: Buried in Hampstead, Camden History Society 1986