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FOSBROKE, THOMAS DUDLEY (1770-1842)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 730 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOSBROKE, See also:THOMAS See also:DUDLEY (1770-1842) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:London on the 27th of May 1770. He was educated at St See also:Paul's school and See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Oxford, graduating M.A. in 1792. In that See also:year he was ordained and became See also:curate of See also:Horsley, See also:Gloucestershire, where he remained till 181o. He then removed to Walford in See also:Herefordshire, and remained there the See also:rest of his See also:life, as curate till 183o, and after-wards as See also:vicar. His first important See also:work, See also:British Monachism (2 vols., 1802), was a compilation, from See also:manuscripts in the British Museum and Bodleian See also:libraries, of facts See also:relating to English monastic life. In 1799 Fosbroke had been elected See also:fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. The work for which he is best remembered, the ,See also:Encyclopaedia of Antiquities, appeared in 1824. A sequel to this, See also:Foreign See also:Topography, was published in 1828. Fosbroke published many other volumes. He died at Walford on the 1st of See also:January 1842.

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