1721 - 1780 (59 years)
Generation: 1
1. | Lieutenant-General Thomas Desaguliers was born on 5 Jan 1721; died on 1 Mar 1780. Notes:
Lieutenant-General Thomas Desaguliers FRS was a British Army general and a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery.
Desaguliers was born 5 January 1721, the youngest son of Dr. John Theophilus Desaguliers. He was the grandson of Jean Desaguliers who, as Protestant pastor of Aytr?, near La Rochelle, was exiled in 1682 prior to the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Jean was ordained in the Anglican Church, but served briefly as lecteur at the French chapel in Swallow Street, London
Family/Spouse: Mary Blackwood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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