User:Rich Farmbrough/DNB/W/i/William Henry Blaauw

William Henry Blaauw|1793|1870| William Henry Blaauw (born 1793 died 1870), antiquary, was born in London 25 May 1793. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where, after taking a first class in classics, he graduated with a BA in 1813, and MA in 1815. He was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1850; was treasurer of the Camden Society for many years, and member of many other learned societies. Blaauw lived at Newick, near Lewes, Sussex, and under his guidance the Sussex Archaeolgical Society was founded in 1846. He was the editor of the society's collections till 1856, when the eighth volume was issued, and was its honorary secretary until 1867. He died 26 April 1870. Blaauw's chief work was a history of the barons' war of Henry III's reign, which was first published in 1844. It is a very careful production, is especially valuable in its topographical details, and forms the chief modern authority on its subject. Its author was engaged at the time of his death in preparing a revised edition, and this was issued under Mr. C. H. Pearson's editorship in 1871. Between 1846 and 1861 Blaauw contributed nearly thirty papers on Sussex archaeolgy to the 'Sussex Archaeolgical Collections'. He communicated a paper on Queen Matilda and her daughter to the 'Archaeolgia' (xxxii. 108) in 1846, and he exhibited many archaeolgical treasures at meetings of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Archaeolgical Institute in London. A portrait of Blaauw is prefixed to volume xxii. of the 'Sussex Archaeolgical Collections'.

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