The Thane Family of Wellington

An extract from the Dictionary of National Biography reads:-
JOHN THANE [1748-1818]
printseller and engraver, born 1748, carried on business for many years in Soho, London, and became famous for his expert knowledge of pictures, coins and every species of 'vertu'. He was a friend of antiquary Joseph Strutt, who at one period resided in his family. He collected the works of Thomas Snelling [q.v.] the metallic antiquary and published them with an excellent protrait drawn and engraved of himself. On Dr. John Fothergill's death in 1870 his fine collection of engraved portraits were sold to Thane, who cut up the volumes and disposed of the contents to the principal collectors at that time. Thane was the projector and editor of "British Autography: a collection of the Facsimiles of the Handwriting of Royal and Illustrious Personages, with their Authentic Portraits", London [1793] 3 vols. A supplement to this work was published by Edward Daniell, London [1854] with a protrait of Thane prefixed, engraved by John Osborne, from a portrait by William Redmore Bigg. Thane died in 1818. his protraits were sold in May 1819.

In and eMail dated June 3, 2004, Edward Thane said:-
"I have been in touch with Essex Records Office and have gleaned more information on John Thane, I suspected he might have been married twice because found reference to a John Thane marrying Mary Lord Snelling 25 November 1770, now John was in partnership with a Thomas Snelling(1712-1773) he was a well known Numismatist who published three major works on English coins, 1762-6. I have found the Christening details for Mary Lord Snelling and sure enough Thomas Snelling was her father and Elizabeth was her mother. In Charles Stuart Thane's(1857-1878) version of the family tree he stated that John Thane was married in Bocking, Essex, as I stated earlier I contacted the Essex Records Office yesterday and they came up with the following information: John Thane, widower of St Anns Soho, Middlesex and Elizabeth Seamer Flack of this parish spinster married by licence, 1 January 1776. Both signed the register, Elizabeth spelt her middle name as Seymour, The witnesses were a William Flack, an Ann Flack[?] and an Ellen Amey."