FOSBROKE

fosbroke, thomas dudley (1770-1842), english antiquary, was born in london on the 27th of may 1770. he was educated at st paul's school and pembroke college, oxford, graduating m.a. in 1792. in that year he was ordained and became curate of horsley, gloucestershire, where he remained till 1810. he then removed to walford in herefordshire, and remained there the rest of his life, as curate till 1830, and afterwards as vicar. his first important work, _british monachism_ (2 vols., 1802), was a compilation, from manuscripts in the british museum and bodleian libraries, of facts relating to english monastic life. in 1799 fosbroke had been elected fellow of the society of antiquaries. the work for which he is best remembered, the _encyclopaedia of antiquities_, appeared in 1824. a sequel to this, _foreign topography_, was published in 1828. fosbroke published many other volumes. he died at walford on the 1st of january 1842.