Thomas Dudley Fosbroke
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (sometime
Fosbrooke)
FSA (27 May 17701 January 1842) was an English clergyman and
antiquary. He was curate of Horsley, Gloucestershire, until 1810 and then of
Walford in Herefordshire. He wrote ''British Monachism'' (2 volumes, 1802), an examination of English monastic life, as well as the ''Encyclopaedia of Antiquities'' (1824) and its sequel, ''Foreign Topography'' (1828). He was an important historian of
Gloucester, writing two volumes on the history of that city.
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