Editing Benjamin Thompson (section)

==Honours==
* Colonel, [[King's American Dragoons]].
* [[Knight]]ed, 1784.
* [[Count of the Holy Roman Empire]], 1791.
* The crater [[Rumford (crater)|Rumford]] on the [[Moon]] is named after him.
* Rumford [[baking powder]] (patented 1859) is named after him, having been invented by a former Rumford professor at Harvard University, [[Eben Norton Horsford]] (1818–1893), cofounder of the Rumford Chemical Works of East Providence, RI.
* [[Ellen Swallow Richards#Rumford Kitchen|Rumford Kitchen]] at the [[World's Columbian Exposition|World's Fair in Chicago]], 1893.
* A street in the inner city of Munich is named after him.
* Rumford Street (and the nearby Rumford Place) in Liverpool, England, are so named due to a soup kitchen established to Count Rumford's plan which formerly stood on land adjacent to Rumford Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/streetnames.htm |title=Liverpool Street Names |website=liverpoolpictorial.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010801171159/http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/streetnames.htm |archive-date=1 August 2001}}</ref>
* {{flagcountry|Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth}}: [[Order of the White Eagle (Poland)|Order of the White Eagle]] (1789).