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Camden, William 1551-1623
English antiquary and historian
Born in London, he was educated at Christ's Hospital, St Paul's School and Oxford, and he became headmaster of Westminster School in 1593. He is best known for his pioneering topographical survey of the British Isles, Britannia (in Latin 1586, Eng trans 1610). He also published a list of the epitaphs in Westminster Abbey (1600), a collection of old English historians (1603), a narrative of the trial of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plotters (1607), and Annals of the Reign of Elizabeth to 1588 (1615). He was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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