biography
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| lived:
| (1551–1623)
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| biography:
| Antiquarian and historian, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford, and became second master of Westminster School (1575), then headmaster (1593). A dedicated scholar, he compiled a pioneering topographical survey of the British Isles in Latin, Britannia (1586, English trans, 1610). The Camden Society (founded 1838), which promoted historical publications, was named after him. |
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