Ancestry of Sir
Benjamin Thompson

Physicist and Inventor, aka Count Rumford

Benjamin "Count Rumford" Thompson

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Thompson 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Simonds   
  • Birth Date:
  • 26 Mar 1753 
  • Birth Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Aug 1814 
  • Death Location:
  • Paris, France 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Auteuil Cemetery, Paris, France 
  • Notes: 
  • Physicist and inventor best known for his work in thermodynamics.

• Sources for Benjamin "Count Rumford" Thompson

  • ¹ Thompson, Rev. Leander, Memorial of James Thompson, of Charlestown, Mass., 1630-1642, and Woburn, Mass., 1642-1682; and Eight Generations . . ., Boston: Press of L. Barta and Co. (1887), 43.
  • ² Wheeler, Florence E., John Chapman's Line of Descent from Edward Chapman of Ipswich, Columbus, Ohio: (excerpted from the Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 1, Jan 1939), 32.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Benjamin Thompson", (accessed 09/26/2011).