Thomas Laugher

The biography of Thomas Laugher appeared in James Granger's and James Caulfield's 1807 work called 'The new wonderful museum, and extraordinary magazine: being a complete repository of all the wonders, curiosities, and rarities of nature and art, from the beginning of the world to the present year ... Including, among the greatest variety of other valuable matter in this line of literature (from an illustrated edition of the Rev. Mr. James Granger's celebrated Biographical history) memoirs and portraits of the most singular and remarkable persons ..

Laugher was one of a series of celebrated old men who were publicised in the early nineteenth century. He died apparently aged 107 in 1807. He lived in London in Kent Street and was very active for his great age.