Baker, George (1781–1851), county historian, the son of Richard Baker and his wife, Ann, was born in Northampton and lived there all his life. As a thirteen-year-old schoolboy at Mr Comfield's establishment in Horsemarket, Northampton, he wrote a manuscript history of Northampton and a life of ...
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Thompson Cooper
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Benson, Robert (1797–1844), judge and local historian of Salisbury, was born in the cathedral close, Salisbury, on 5 February 1797, the youngest son of the Revd Edmund Benson (d. 1835), vicar of Salisbury Cathedral, and his wife, Anne Hunt Grubbe. He was educated at a private school in ...
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Blackner, John (1770
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John Bridges (bap. 1666, d. 1724) by George Vertue, 1726 (after Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1706) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Bridges, John (bap. 1666, d. 1724), county historian, was baptized at Binfield, Berkshire, on 24 June 1666. He was the eldest of the twelve children of John Bridges (1642–1712), squire of Barton Seagrave in Northamptonshire, and his wife, Elizabeth (1642–1712), daughter of William Trumbull...
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H. C. G. Matthew
Calder, James Traill (1794–1864), local historian, was born on 18 October 1794 at Olrig, near Castletown, Caithness, the son of George Calder, gardener to James Traill of Ratter, and his wife, Janet Reid. Calder lost the use of one of his limbs at the age of four. He was educated in the parish schools of ...
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Walter Chetwynd (1633–1693) by Sir Peter Lely by permission of Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
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M. W. Greenslade
Chetwynd, Walter (1633–1693), county historian, was born on 9 May 1633, the son of Walter Chetwynd (1597/8–1669) of Ingestre, Staffordshire, and his wife, Frances (1605/6–1686), daughter and heir of Edward Hesilrigge of Arthingworth, Northamptonshire, and Theddingworth, Leicestershire. He was a descendant of a younger branch of the ...
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Robert Clutterbuck (1772–1831) by William Bond (after William Henry Hunt, c. 1815) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Lionel M. Munby
Clutterbuck, Robert (1772–1831), local historian and landowner, was born and baptized at Watford House, High Street, Watford, in Hertfordshire, on 28 January 1772. He was the eldest surviving son of Thomas Clutterbuck the younger (1744–1791) and Sarah Thurgood (1749–1788), daughter of Robert and ...
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Philip Magnus
revised by H. C. G. Matthew
Cremer, Robert Wyndham Ketton- (1906–1969), biographer and county historian, was the elder son of a Norfolk squire, Wyndham Ketton-Cremer (1870–1933) of Beeston, and his wife, Emily (1882–1952), daughter of Robert Bayly, timber merchant. Born on 2 May 1906, at his mother's family home in ...
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David Hay Fleming (1849–1931) by Andrew Swan Watson, 1925 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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J. D. Mackie
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Fleming, David Hay (1849–1931), antiquary and writer on Scottish history, was born at St Andrews on 9 May 1849, the third and youngest son of John Fleming, china and stoneware merchant, of St Andrews, whose ancestors were from Deeside, and his wife, Ann...
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Gough, Richard (bap. 1635, d. 1723), local historian, was born in Newton on the Hill in the parish of Myddle, Shropshire, and baptized on 18 January 1635, the son of Richard Gough and his wife, Dorothy Jenks, formerly of Cockshutt. He was the fifth ...
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Edward Hasted (1732–1812) by unknown artist, 1801 Medway Archives and Local Studies Centre, Education and Leisure Directorate, Medway Council
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Joan Thirsk
Hasted, Edward (1732–1812), county historian, was born on 20 December 1732 at Dove Court, Lombard Street, London, the only son of Edward Hasted (1702–1740), landowner, of Hawley, in Sutton-at-Hone parish, and Anne Tyler, daughter and coheir of Joseph Tyler of London. His father was a member of ...
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W. Raymond Powell
Holman, William (bap. 1669, d. 1730), county historian, was baptized on 15 December 1669, at Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, the son of William Holman. He had migrated to London by 1690, when he was received into the Stepney Independent meeting, as 'chaplain to ...
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John Hutchins (1698–1773) by J. Collimore, pubd 1813 (after Charles Bestland) © National Portrait Gallery, London
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J. H. Bettey
Hutchins, John (1698–1773), county historian, was born on 21 September 1698 at Bradford Peverell, Dorset, the son of Richard Hutchins (1667–1734), Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Anne (d. 1707). He came from a well-established Dorset clerical family. His grandfather John Hutchins...
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Brynley F. Roberts
Jones, Theophilus (1759–1812), county historian, the son of Hugh Jones (d. 1799), Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Elinor (d. 1786), elder daughter of the historian Theophilus Evans (1693–1767), was born in Lion Street, Brecon, on 18 October 1759. His father, curate of ...
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