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DOUCE, FRANCIS (1757-1834)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 442 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DOUCE, See also:FRANCIS (1757-1834) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:London in 1757. His See also:father was a clerk in See also:Chancery. After completing his See also:education he entered his father's See also:office, but soon. quitted it to devote himself to the study of antiquities. He became a prominent member of the Society of Antiquaries, and for a See also:time held the See also:post of keeper of See also:manuscripts in the See also:British Museum, but was compelled to resign it owing to a See also:quarrel with one of the trustees. In 1807 he published his Illustrations of See also:Shakespeare and See also:Ancient See also:Manners (2 vols. 8vo), which contained some curious See also:information, along with a See also:great See also:deal of trifling See also:criticism and mistaken See also:interpretation. An unfavourable See also:notice of the See also:work in The See also:Edinburgh See also:Review greatly irritated the author, and made him unwilling to venture any further publications. He contributed, however, a considerable number of papers to the Archaeologia and The See also:Gentleman's :Al agazine. In 1833 he published a Dissertation on the various Designs of the See also:Dance of See also:Death, the substance of which had appeared See also:forty years before. He died on the 3oth of See also:March 1834. By his will he See also:left his printed books, illuminated manuscripts, coins, &c., to the Bodleian library; his own See also:manuscript See also:works to the British Museum, with directions that the See also:chest containing them should not be opened until the 1st of See also:January 1900; and his paintings, carvings and See also:miscellaneous antiquities to See also:Sir See also:Samuel Meyrick, who published an See also:account of them, 'entitled The Doucean Museum.

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