Peter Adam Thrasher (1923 – 9 February 2018) was a British biographer and writer on population statistics.''The Writers Directory 1980–82'' (London: Macmillan, 1979), p. 1239. Thrasher was born in

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and educated at Mutley College in Plymouth. From 1939 until 1957 he worked for the

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and during 1957–1964 he was employed by the

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. During 1964–1966 he worked for the Department of the Environment. In 1966 he was appointed to the

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as a chartered civil engineer at the department of planning and transportation. His biography of the

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n nationalist politician

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was published in 1970. David Abram in ''The

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to Corsica'' called Thrasher's work the "best English-language biography of the great man" and that as an introduction to Paoli "it's hard to beat". His PhD thesis was titled "The diplomatic career of Pozzo di Borgo: envoy extraordinary of the Court of Russia and Russian Ambassador at Paris 1805–1835, Russian Ambassador at London 1835–1840" and was printed by

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in 1974. Trasher died in

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on 9 February 2018, at the age of 94.

Works

*''Pasquale Paoli: An Enlightened Hero, 1725–1807'' (London: Constable, 1970). *''Standard Statistical Sectors for Greater London'', co-authored with Keith Crawford (London: Greater London Council, 1971).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Thrasher, Peter Adam 1923 births 2018 deaths 20th-century British biographers Writers from Plymouth, Devon