Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford by the grace of Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria, was an arrogant, auburn-haired New England dandy with a taste for rich widows and a talent for cultivating royalty.

THE name of Count Rumford was a very familiar one in the ears of our fathers and grandfathers. For many years he was a very famous man on both sides of the Atlantic, and his fame was an honest one, of ...

[Full entry reads: "Portrait of Count Rumford, copied from a Picture now in England, painted by Kellenhofer of Munich in 1792. Presented by the Count to his Mother, in 1799."] Catalogue of the ...

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