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See also: English See also: scholar and historian, eldest son of See also: Charles 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 Language, and partly at the grammar school of See also: Bury St See also: Edmunds, where he obtained in 1826 an See also: exhibition to Trinity See also: College, Cambridge
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At the university his See also: historical essays gained him high reputation
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The bent of his studies was turned more especially towards the Anglo-Saxon See also: period through the 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 Teutonic See also: languages and his critical faculty were shown in his See also: Beowulf (1833-1837), See also: Tiber 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
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1876), though it must now be read with caution, was the first attempt at a thorough examination of the See also: original See also: sources of the early period of English history
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He was editor of the See also: British and See also: Foreign 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 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 Archaeology of
See also: Northern Nations, was completed by Dr R
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G
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Latham, and published in 1864
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He married the daughter of Professor AmadeusSee also: Wendt of Gottingen in 1836; and had two daughters and a son; the elder daughter was the wife of See also: Sir Charles See also: Santley, the See also: singer
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