“His complexion exceeding faire—he was so faire that they called him the Lady of Christ”
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John Aubrey
John Aubrey was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted for his systematic examination of the Avebury henge monument. The Aubrey holes at Stonehenge are named after him, although there is considerable doubt as to whether the holes that he obser…
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Born 12 March 1626 · Died 7 June 1697 · Q356317
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2026· 2 entries
“The Life of Mr Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury”
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2015· 1 entry
Ruth Scurr published John Aubrey: My Own Life, a semi-fictional "diary" or "autobiography" of Aubrey, which draws heavily on Aubrey's own surviving scattered writings (with minor adaptation and modernisation), but is ess
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2008· 2 entries
“. In Lamb, M.E.; Bamford, Karen (eds.). Oral traditions and gender in early modern literary texts. Aldershot: Ashgate. pp. 41–56. Fellows-Jensen, Gillian (2000).”
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Aubrey's Brief Lives was a five-part drama serial on Radio 4
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1967· 1 entry
English director Patrick Garland created a one-man show, Brief Lives, based on Dick's edition of Aubrey's work
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1862· 1 entry
As Wiltshire: the Topographical Collections of John Aubrey
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1813· 1 entry
As Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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1697· 1 entry
Died 1697-06-07.
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1626· 1 entry
Born 1626-03-12.
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