Allen, Thomas William (1862–1950), Greek scholar and palaeographer, was born on 9 May 1862 at 103 Camden Road Villas, Camden New Town, London, the eldest of five children of Thomas Bull Allen, wholesale tea dealer, and his wife, Amelia Le Lacheur. One of his sisters married the classical scholar ...
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David N. Klausner
Evans, John Gwenogvryn (1852–1930), palaeographer, was born at Ffynnon-felfed, Llanybydder, Carmarthenshire, on 20 March 1852, the only son of Thomas Evans, farmer, and his wife, Margaret, née Rees. When he was a year old his parents moved to Llanwenog, Cardiganshire, the parish from which he later coined his middle name. He attended local schools until the age of fourteen, and then spent four years apprenticed to his uncle, ...
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A. J. K. Esdaile
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Gilson, Julius Parnell (1868–1929), librarian and palaeographer, was born at Worksop, Nottinghamshire, on 23 June 1868, the younger son of Henry Robert Gilson, of Worksop, and his wife, Mary Anne, daughter of George Quilter, vicar of Canwick, near Lincoln. He was educated at ...
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H. G. Wood
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Harris, James Rendel (1852–1941), biblical scholar and palaeographer, was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 27 January 1852, the second son in the family of eleven children (eight daughters and three sons) of Henry Marmaduke Harris (1815–1895), owner of a house decorating business, and his wife, ...
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Hayter, John (1755–1818), Church of England clergyman and palaeographer, was born in Chagford, Devon, and baptized there on 19 March 1755, one of two sons of Joshua Hayter, rector of Chagford, and his wife, Frances. Having been educated at Eton College from 1766 to 1772 he matriculated from ...
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David Vaisey
Hunt, Richard William (1908–1979), palaeographer, was born at Spondon, Derbyshire, on 11 April 1908, the second of three sons and one daughter born to Sydney Hunt, the local doctor, and his wife, Mabel Mary Whitely. From school at Haileybury College he went to read classics at ...
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Ker, Neil Ripley (1908–1982), palaeographer, was born on 28 May 1908 in Brompton, London, the only child of Robert Macneil Ker, of Dougalston, Milngavie, later a captain in the 3rd battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and his second wife, Lucy Winifred...
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Elias Avery Lowe (1879–1969) by Sir Jacob Epstein, 1953 © Tate, London, 2004; collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph Lowe, 1956. (65.232) All rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Lowe, Elias Avery (1879–1969), palaeographer, was born on 15 October 1879 in Moscow, Russia, the son of Charles Loew, a silk and embroidery merchant, and his wife, Sarah Ragoler. In 1892 he emigrated with his parents to New York city, where he became a ...
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Madden, Sir Frederic (1801–1873), palaeographer and librarian, was born at 31 St Thomas's Street, Portsmouth, on 16 February 1801, the eleventh of the thirteen children of Captain William John Madden (1757–1833), Royal Marines, and Sarah Carter Madden (1759–1833), daughter of the Revd Arnold Carter...
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Sir Frederic Madden (1801–1873) by Richard Cockle Lucas, 1849 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Minns, Sir Ellis Hovell (1874–1953), archaeologist and palaeographer, was born in Weston, Hampshire, on 16 July 1874, the third in the family of two sons and a daughter of the Revd George William Walter Minns (1837–1919), vicar of Weston, and his wife, Jane Porter Boggs...
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Sir Edward Maunde Thompson (1840–1929) by Bassano, 1899 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Thompson, Sir Edward Maunde (1840–1929), palaeographer and librarian, was born on 4 May 1840 at Clarendon, Jamaica, the eldest son of Edward Thompson, custos of Clarendon, and Elizabeth Hayhurst, daughter of Samuel Poole, of Clarendon. He was educated at Rugby School (1854–9) and was admitted to ...
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Westwood, John Obadiah (1805–1893), entomologist and palaeographer, was born on 22 December 1805 at Sheffield, the son of John Westwood (1774–1850), a medal designer and die-sinker, and his wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Betts of Sheffield. Westwood was educated at the Society of Friends'...
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Wormald, Francis (1904–1972), palaeographer and art historian, was born at Dewsbury Mill in the West Riding of Yorkshire on 1 June 1904, shortly after his twin brother, John; their twin sisters, Ellen and Ann, were born in 1909. Their parents were Thomas Marmaduke Wormald JP (...
