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Thomas Topham, the Strong Man, performer of feats of strength. Depicted lifting three hogsheads of water weighing 1,836 pounds at Cold Bath Fields, May 28, 1741. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits,
Bill Pearl - Thomas Topham was born in London, in 1710. His fame and stature owe a great deal to Dr. Theophilus Desaguliers, a man of science, who studied and chronicaled Thomas
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