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Excerpt from A New Biographical Dictionary, of 3000 Contemporary Public Characters, Vol. 2: British and Foreign, of All Ranks and Professions, Part I
Tm gentleman completed his education at Pembroke College, Oxford, and took his degree in 1792. Mr. Fos brooke obtained the living of Horsley in Gloucestershire and, acquiring distinction by his researches, was elected at'ellow of the Antiquarian Society. He has since re moved to Ross in Herefordshire, where he enjoys some clerical preferment, and conducts a seminary for the education of a select number of pupils. His works are, The Economy of a Monastic Life as it existed in Eng land, afpoem, with'philosophical and Archaeological ll lustrations, 1795; British Monachism, 2 vols. Svo. 1809; Abstracts of Records and Manuscripts respect ing the Courts of Gloucester, 2 vols. 4to. 1807 Letter to Mr. Canning on the uncandid Abuse of the Duke of York, 1809; and A Key to the New Testament, abridged from Whitby, 1815. Mr. Fosbroolte is also the author of many papers in the Monthly and Gentleman's Magazines; and he has recently published Berkeley Anecdotes, with a History of the Castle and Parish of Berkeley and also the First Part of an Encyclopedia of Antiquities.
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