biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1809–88)
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| biography:
| British antiquary, a member of a great London music publishing house. His Collection of National English Airs (2 vols, 1838–40) grew into Popular Music of the Olden Time (2 vols, 1855–9). He took a principal part in the foundation of the Musical Antiquarian Society (1840), the Percy Society, and the Ballad Society (1868). |
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