Thomas Dudley Fosbroke | |
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| Born | 27 May 1770 |
| Died | 1 January 1842 (aged 71) |
Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (sometime Fosbrooke) FSA (27 May 1770 – 1 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.