biography
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Kilvert, (Robert) Francis
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| male
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| lived:
| (1840–79)
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| biography:
| Clergyman and diarist, born in Hardenhuish, Wiltshire, S England, UK. He was a curate at Clyro in Radnorshire and then vicar of Bredwardine on the Wye until his early death from appendicitis. His notebooks (1870–9), giving a vivid and affectionate picture of rural life in the Welsh marches, were discovered in 1937 and published as Kilvert's Diary, in three volumes (1938–40). |
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