See also:JOHN See also:MITCHELL See also:KEMBLE (1807-1857)
, See also:English See also:scholar and historian, eldest son of See also:Charles See also:Kemble the actor, was See also:born in 1807
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He received his See also:education partly from Dr See also:Richardson, author of the See also:Dictionary of the English See also:Language, and partly at the See also:grammar school of See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, where he obtained in 1826 an See also:exhibition to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge
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At the university his See also:historical essays gained him high reputation
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The See also:bent of his studies was turned more especially towards the Anglo-Saxon See also:period through the See also:influence of the See also:brothers See also:Grimm, under whom he studied at See also:Gottingen (1831)
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His thorough knowledge of the See also:Teutonic See also:languages and his See also:critical See also:faculty were shown in his See also:Beowulf (1833-1837), See also:Tiber See also:die Stammtafel der Westsachsen (1836), Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici (1839-1848), and in many contributions to reviews; while his See also:History of the See also:Saxons in See also:England (1849; new ed
.
1876), though it must now be read with caution, was the first See also:attempt at a thorough examination of the See also:original See also:sources of the See also:early period of English history
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He was editor of the See also:British and See also:Foreign See also:Review from 1835 to 1844; and from 184o to his See also:death was examiner of plays
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In 1857 he published See also:State Papers and See also:Correspondence illustrative of the Social and See also:Political State of See also:Europe from the Revolution to the See also:Accession of the See also:House of See also:Hanover
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He died at See also:Dublin on the 26th of See also:March 1857
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His HoraeFerales, or Studies in the See also:Archaeology of See also:Northern Nations, was completed by Dr R
.
G
.
Latham, and published in 1864
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He married the daughter of See also:Professor Amadeus See also:Wendt of Gottingen in 1836; and had two daughters and a son; the See also:elder daughter was the wife of See also:Sir Charles See also:Santley, the See also:singer
.
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