Sir William Dugdale

Janet Rosemary Broadway (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Jacqueline Eales, Canterbury Christ Church University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.04: English Writing and Culture of the Seventeenth Century, 1625-1688.
Vol. editors: Jennifer Brady (Rhodes College), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Claire Preston (Queen Mary, University of London), J A Roe (University of York), Virginia Mason Vaughan (Clark University)

Dates

Born 12 Sep 1605
Died 10 Feb 1686
Activity 1625-1686

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Activities

Primary

Historian / Chronicler

Resources

Dugdale's Works

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William Dugdale was an antiquarian author and editor, who helped to establish the use of archives in the study of medieval England. He was born at Shustoke, Warwickshire, where his father leased the parsonage. He was the second child and only son of John Dugdale, the retired clerk of accounts of an Oxford college, and Elizabeth, the daughter of a local clergyman and mother of three children by a former marriage. 9 years younger than his elder sister, he was educated at the Free School in Coventry where he was taught by Philemon Holland, the translator of William Camden’s

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, who may have first stimulated his antiquarian interests. His formal education ended when he was withdrawn from school before his fifteen birthday. In March 1623 he married Margery Huntbach (1607-1681), the…

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Citation: Broadway, Janet Rosemary. "Sir William Dugdale". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 March 2010 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1341, accessed 22 November 2024.]