Alexander Dyce
(1798–1869)Scholar, who edited many works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. His editions include the works of George Peele (1828 and 1829–39), Thomas Middleton (1840), Beaumont and Fletcher ...
diaries
Deriving from forms of the Latin words dies (‘day’) and diaria (‘daily allowance’), the term ‘diary’ generally denotes a manuscript book in which the writer keeps, or sets out to ...
Ecclesiologist
Published by the Camden Society between 1841 and 1868, this journal greatly influenced the course of church building and restoration in the Victorian period. Its pages are now an important source of ...
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
(1820–1889), English antiquary, book collector, and editor whose anthologies of the nursery's “wild and fanciful” lore helped integrate this material into the children's literature canon. Like Joseph ...
John Mason Neale
(1818–66), High Church Anglican author and hymn-writer. Ordained in 1842, from 1846 he was warden of Sackville College, East Grinstead. In 1855 he founded the Sisterhood of St Margaret; this ...
Oxford Movement
A movement (1833–45) in the C of E, centred in Oxford, which aimed at restoring High Church principles. Several causes contributed to its growth, including the decline of Church life, the spread of ...
Richard Pococke
(1704–65),Church of Ireland bishop of Ossory (1756–65), antiquarian, and traveller, who published accounts of his visits to the Middle East, Scotland, and England. His Tour in Ireland in 1752 ...
Royal Historical Society
Was founded in 1868 and took the title ‘Royal’ in 1887; its papers are published annually as Transactions. In 1897 the Camden Society was amalgamated with the Royal Historical Society, which now ...
Sir Thomas Hoby
(1530–66)Translator, educated at St John's College, Cambridge; from 1547 to 1555 he made frequent visits to the Continent and his notebook covering the years 1551–64, with interesting accounts of ...
William John Thoms
(1803–85),antiquary, author of several works including The Book of the Court (1838), and editor of a number of volumes including a collection of Early Prose Romances (1827–8) and The History of ...
