biography
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| (1779–1834)
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| biography:
| Antiquary and topographer, born in Durham, Co Durham, NE England, UK. He studied at Oxford and the Middle Temple, and in 1802 inherited Mainsforth near Bishop Auckland. Here he compiled his History of the County of Durham (1816–23). To Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border he contributed two ‘ancient’ ballads he created himself - Barthram's Dirge and The Death of Featherstonhaugh. |
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