Thomas Blore was a topographer and the father of Edward Blore, the architect responsible for the completion of Buckingham Palace after the dismissal of Thomas Nash by William IV in 1830. Failing to be called to the bar, the elder Blore focused his attentions on the topography of England. He lived for a time in Hertfordshire, where he wrote an extensive manuscript of the county’s history, before moving to Bakewell in Derbyshire. He also spent time at Manton in Rutland and Stamford in Lincolnshire. This history of public schools, hospitals and charitable institutions in Stamford was published in 1813.