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See also:RICHARD See also:GOUGH (1735-1809) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:London on the 21st of See also:October 1735 . His See also:father was a wealthy M.P. and director of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company . See also:Gough was a precocious See also:child, and at twelve had translated from the See also:French a See also:history of the See also:Bible, which his See also:mother printed for private circulation . When fifteen he translated See also:Abbe See also:Fleury's See also:work on the Israelites; and at sixteen he published an elaborate work entitled See also:Atlas Renovatus, or See also:Geography modernized . In 1752 he entered Corpus Christi See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he began his work on See also:British See also:topography, published in 1768 . Leaving Cambridge in 1756, he began a See also:series of antiquarian excursions in various parts of See also:Great See also:Britain . In 1773 he began an edition in English of See also:Camden's Britannia, which appeared in 1789 . |
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