THOMAS

See also:

• DUDLEY
• DUDLEY, BARONS AND EARLS OF
• DUDLEY, EDMUND (c. 1462—1510)
• DUDLEY, SIR ROBERT (1573—1649)
• DUDLEY, THOMAS (1576-1653)

DUDLEY

See also:

• THOMAS DUDLEY FOSBROKE (1770-1842)

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