Theophilus Buckeridge (1724-1803), British antiquary. Buckeridge was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, and educated at the grammar school there and th
Theophilus Buckeridge (1724-1803), British antiquary. Buckeridge was born at Lichfield, Staffordshire, and educated at the grammar school there and then at Oxford. He was ordained and from 1748 was curate of Edingale near Lichfield. A divine (someone learned in Anglican theology) with a particular interest in antiquities, Buckeridge was one of the contributors to the publication 'A survey of Staffordshire: containing the antiquities of that county' (1820). Artwork from 'Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century', an 8-volume work published between 1817 and 1858 by English printer and antiquarian John Nichols and his son John Bowyer Nichols.
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