Thomas Dudley Fosbroke (1770-1842) was an antiquary. Details are given in the Dictionary of National Biography.

Three volumes of Gloucestershire collections of T.D. Fosbroke:

• volume of extracts from records, including inquisitions post mortem and ad quod damnum, temp. Hen. III-Richard II copied from a MS. belonging to Stebbing Shaw, 1802; John Smith's 'Lives of the Berkeleys'; extracts from two cartularies of Winchcombe Abbey (Davis, nos. 1037-8); a MS. of John Smith relating to estates belonging to Berkeley Castle; and the cartulary of St. Augustine's Abbey, Bristol (Davis, no. 77)
• volume of miscellaneous notes relating to Gloucestershire manors, parishes and families, with letters to Fosbroke, mainly concerning subscriptions to his work, and a detailed list of contents
• volume containing fair copies of, and rough notes for, accounts of Gloucestershire parishes, arranged by hundred, for use in Fosbroke's Abstracts of records and manuscripts respecting the county of Gloucester; formed into a history (Gloucester: 1817). The volume was later used by Fosbroke for extracts from printed works relating to society and manners in ancient Greece and Rome.

The volumes were owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MSS. 7107-8, 13626), 1835; and by D.C.C. Wilson, 1978.

Bought by the Library, Sotheby's, 28 March 1983, lot. 6.

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See Fosbroke Abstracts of records and manuscripts respecting the county of Gloucester; formed into a history (Gloucester: 1817)

Antiquarians

Parishes | England | Gloucestershire

Fosbroke | Thomas Dudley | 1770-1842 | Antiquary

St. Augustine's Abbey | Bristol

Berkeley | family | Earls of Berkeley | Berkeley Castle

Gloucestershire (England)