Quotes:Inman, Thomas

Zirkoff, Boris

Inman, Dr. Thomas. English mythologist, b. Jan. 27,1820, in Leicester; d. at Clifton, May 3, 1876. Went to school at Wakefield, and in 1836 was apprenticed to his uncle, Richard Inman, M.D., at Preston, Lancashire. Entered King’s College, London, graduating M.B., 1842, and M.D., 1844, at the University of London. Settled in Liverpool as house-surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. His favorite subjects were archaeology, philology and mythology. His theories and ideas were propounded in three works entitled: Ancient Faiths embodied in Ancient Names, in two volumes (London, 1868-69; 2nd ed., 1872-73); Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism exposed and explained (London, 1869; 2nd ed., New York, 1871); and Ancient Faiths and Modern (New York, 1876). He also wrote a number of medical essays and contributed scholarly studies to the Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 11, p. 579