The Angel Inn the Anglo-Irish actress Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), who became the mistress and companion of the future King William IV. Thornton was "a man with flair but with no eye for detail [and] little patience with learning lines, a habit which spread to members of his company." James Winston, in his "The Theatric Tourist" (1805), relates how, just before one performance at Andover, Thornton noticed someone in the audience holding a copy of that evening's play. Winston writes: "With such a potent evidence of their incorrectness, it was impossible to proceed..." Thornton announced that the performance was cancelled, owing to the troupe's
HMS Santa Dorothea (1798) Spanish prisoners taken was the future Argentine general José de San Martín, who at the time was a staff member on "Santa Dorothea". In 1847 the Admiralty authorized the issuance of the Naval General Service Medal with clasp "LION 15 JULY 1798" to the remaining British survivors of the action. "Santa Dorothea" was registered on 25 December 1798 and commissioned for service that month in the Mediterranean under Captain Hugh Downman. On 28 November that year "Santa Dorothea", operating in company with , and captured the 16-gun "San Leon" on the Lisbon station. Captain William Brown was to have succeeded