biography
pronunciation:
[leeland]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1506–52)
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| biography:
| Antiquary, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge and Oxford. After a stay in Paris he became chaplain to Henry VIII, who in 1533 made him ‘king's antiquary’, with power to search for records of antiquity in the cathedrals, colleges, abbeys, and priories of England. He became insane in 1550. Most of his papers are in the Bodleian and British Museum, one of his chief works being The Itinerary, published at Oxford in 9 volumes (1710). |
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