George Henry Dashwood
George Henry Dashwood (21 October 1801 โ 9 February 1869) was a British
Life
Dashwood was born at Downham Market, Norfolk, on 21 October 1801, the son of the Rev. James Dashwood, rector of Doddington, Isle of Ely, by his second wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. David Lloyd, LL.D. After spending five terms at Christ's College, Cambridge,[1] he transferred to Lincoln College, Oxford, from where he graduated B.A. in 1824, and M.A. in 1825. He was ordained deacon and priest in the latter year by the Bishop of Oxford, and was for some years curate of Wellesbourne, Warwickshire.
He was curate of
After the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society had been established in 1845, Dashwood communicated many valuable papers to the first five volumes of its journal, Norfolk Archaeology. In 1863 he undertook to edit for the same society Pedes Finium, or Fines respecting Norfolk from the third year of Richard I, of which only sixteen pages were completed. A much more important work on which he was engaged, with his friend, Joseph Jackson Howard, LL.D., was the earliest heraldic visitation of Norfolk, 1563, accompanied by a supplement of illustrative documents, and with many of the pedigrees brought down to modern times. The Historical Notices of Fincham, co. Norfolk. By the Rev. William Blythe, Lynn, 1863, was enriched with a series of Fincham pedigrees which were actually put in type by Dashwood, and printed at his private press. His last work was the printing a selection of pedigrees from the visitation of Warwickshire in 1682, of which only 12 copies were struck off (there is no copy in the British Library).
Dashwood died after a few days' illness, while on a visit to Captain W. E. G. Bulwer at Quebec House,
Personal life
Dashwood married Marianne, daughter of W. H. Turner, and widow of Dr Henry Job of the 13th Light Dragoons. She died without issue in 1855.
References
- ^ "Dashwood, George Henry (DSWT818GH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Archaeologia, vol. 30, p. 547.
- ^ Herald and Genealogist, vol. 4, pp. 410โ24.
- ^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. 1:4, p. 258.
- ^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. 2:1, p. 289.
- ^ Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries, vol. 2:3, p. 210.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Dashwood, George Henry". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885โ1900.