Lewis Hippolytus Joseph Tonna (3 September 1812 – 2 April 1857) was an English

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and campaigner on behalf of

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. Born

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, son of the Spanish vice-consul and consul for the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, his father died in 1828 while he was a student in Corfu and he was compelled to find employment as an interpreter aboard the '' Hydra''. He served on various ships until returning to England in 1835 to become a director of the

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.Laughton (2004) Tonna married Charlotte Elizabeth Browne, a widow, in 1841 and the two were prolific pamphleteers for the evangelical Protestant cause. When

Giacinto Achilli Giovanni Giacinto Achilli (; ''c.'' 1803 – ''c.'' 1860) was an Italian Roman Catholic Dominican friar and anti-Jesuit who was discharged from the priesthood and imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition for being falsely accusedKer (2004)Ward (1912 ...

was interned following the fall of the

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, Tonna was prominent in the campaign for his release and return to England.Gilley (2004) Following Charlotte's death in 1846, in 1848 he married Mary Anne Dibdin, daughter of Charles Dibdin (the younger). Neither marriage produced children and Tonna died in London.

Honours

*Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries; *Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (1855).

References

Bibliography

*Gilley, S. (2004) "Achilli, (Giovanni) Giacinto (b. c.1803)", ''

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(subscription required) * Laughton, J. K. (2004) "Tonna, Lewis Hippolytus Joseph (1812–1857)", rev. Stephen Gregory, ''

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