biography
pronunciation:
[awbree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1626–97)
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| biography:
| Antiquary and folklorist, born in Easton Percy, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He studied at Oxford and London, training as a lawyer, but was never called to the bar. Only his quaint, credulous Miscellanies (1696) of folklore and ghost-stories was printed in his lifetime, but he left a large mass of unpublished materials. He also collected biographical and anecdotal material on celebrities of his time, which appeared in Letters by Eminent Persons (1813), better known as Brief Lives. |
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