Ralph Thoresby (1628–1725), Diary Entries on the Death of Mr. Sharp, 1693

Ralph Thoresby was an antiquarian, merchant and nonconformist Protestant from the north of England who became a fellow of the Royal Society and kept a very detailed personal diary. One of his close friends was Mr. Thomas Sharp, the minister of the dissenting congregation on Mill Hill between 1677 and 1693. The death of Mr Sharp in 1693 deeply affected Thoresby, who wrote a moving record of the event in his diary.