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1701Aug, 4

Thomas Blackwell (scholar)

Thomas Blackwell, Scottish historian and scholar (d. 1757)
Thomas Blackwell the younger (4 August 1701 – 6 March 1757) was a classical scholar, historian and "one of the major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment."

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