John Nichols Thom, or Mad Tom, (1799 - 31 May 1838) was a Cornishman, a self-declared messiah who, in the 19th century led the last battle to be fought on English soil.
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“It is queer to contemplate how many people there are in any community who labor under the hallucination that if one is engaged in any occupation different from their own, that they are just having a good time, with no possible hardships to encounter.”
—Caroline Nichols Churchill (1833–?)