Background
Henry Thomas was born at Steventon, Hampshire, the fourth of the eight children born to Review George Austen and Cassandra Leigh.
Henry Thomas was born at Steventon, Hampshire, the fourth of the eight children born to Review George Austen and Cassandra Leigh.
Street John"s College.
He matriculated at Street John"s College, Oxford in 1788 and received an Master of Arts in 1793. In 1793 he joined the Oxfordshire Militia, rising to captain before resigning in 1801. In 1804 he founded, with two associates, the bank of Austen, Maunde and Tilson in Covent Garden, London.
lieutenant went bankrupt in 1816.
He entered the church that same year and was made curate of Chawton, Hampshire. In 1820 he was made Rector of Steventon.
He arranged the publication of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion after Jane Austen"s death in 1817. He died in 1850 and was buried in Woodbury Park Cemetery, Tunbridge Wells.
