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Christopher Towneley
Born9 January 1604
Towneley Hall, Lancashire
DiedAugust 1674
NationalityEnglish
OccupationAntiquarian

Christopher Towneley (9 January 1604 – August 1674) was an English antiquarian from an old Roman Catholic, Lancashire family. Often called ‘the Transcriber’, he spent much of his life researching local history and copying ancient documents.

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Christopher Towneley

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Christopher Towneley (9 January 1604 – August 1674) was an English antiquarian from an old Roman Catholic, Lancashire family. Often called ‘the Transcriber’...

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Towneley family

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The Towneley or Townley family are an English family whose ancestry can be traced back to Anglo-Saxon England. Towneley Hall in Burnley, Lancashire, was...

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Richard Towneley

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Lancashire. His uncle was the antiquarian and mathematician Christopher Towneley (1604–1674). Towneley's Catholicism isolated him from some of the key scientific...

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Priapus

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Oxford University Press. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-19-871698-3. Robert Christopher Towneley Parker. "Priapus". The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Ed. Simon Hornblower...

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Castor and Pollux

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Classical World, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Parker, Robert Christopher Towneley (2003), "Dioscuri", in Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Anthony (eds...

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Sir Edward de Warren

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Office. p.135. Retrieved 01 August 2021. Langdon, William (1875)."Christopher Towneley's Abstracts Of Lancashire Inquisitions: Johannes de Wareyn, Chivaler...

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Plumpton Correspondence

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of copies which passed into the hands of Christopher Towneley by about 1650, and remained among the Towneley manuscripts. It was edited for the Camden...

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Plynteria

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had a month named Plynterion. Athenian festivals Parker, Robert Christopher Towneley (1996), "Plynteria", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.), Oxford Classical...

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1639 transit of Venus

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with Horrocks, two other young astronomers – William Gascoigne and Christopher Towneley – and Samuel Foster, Professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London...

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Charles Townley

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wealthy English country gentleman, antiquary and collector, a member of the Towneley family. He travelled on three Grand Tours to Italy, buying antique sculpture...

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Reedley Hallows

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Catholic martyrs executed for being priests in 1584 and 1600. Christopher Towneley, of the Towneley Hall family, lived at Moor Isles Farm in latter years of...

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Rain gauge

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Derham appears to have taken up Towneley's challenge. They jointly published the rainfall measurements for Towneley Park and Upminster in Essex for the...

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Jeremy Shakerley

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on Kepler's tables. For a while he lived under the patronage of Christopher Towneley at Carr Hall. In 1649 he began to critique the work of Vincent Wing...

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Northern Ballet

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Meyer had chosen and in 1975, in meeting described as "brutal", Simon Towneley, the board's chairman, invited Meyer to resign immediately. Robert de Warren...

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Strachey

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Maurice Towneley-O'Hagan, 3rd Baron O'Hagan (1882–1961), British Liberal politician, they had at least one son: Major Thomas Anthony Edward Towneley Strachey...

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Earl of Abingdon

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Montagu Charles Francis Towneley-Bertie, Lord Norreys, who had assumed by Royal licence his maternal grandfather's surname of Towneley in 1896), succeeded...

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Poculi Ludique Societas

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Nicholas Udall; Towneley Noah and Secunda Pastorum; Fool Surgery; The Pie and the Tart; Johan Johan (puppet production); Edward II by Christopher Marlowe; The...

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Forest of Bowland

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Lordship of Bowland then descended through the Montagu, Buccleuch and Towneley families. Bowbearers of the Forest of Bowland have been appointed since...

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Jacobite rising of 1745

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were formed into the Manchester Regiment. Their commander was Francis Towneley, a Lancashire Catholic and former French Royal Army officer, whose elder...

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Stowe School

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journalist Richard "Ric" Thorpe (born 1965), Bishop of Islington Simon Towneley (1921-2022), Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire Bubby Upton (born 1999), British...

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List of people buried in Brookwood Cemetery

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of London Cemetery in 2018 Edward Maunde Thompson John Tiller Montagu Towneley-Bertie J. H. A. Tremenheere Thomas Twisden Hodges Joe Vandeleur Douglas...

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Christopher Hewetson

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unfinished, and of a considerable number of copies after the antique. Charles Towneley (marble bust, 1769), Department of Medieval & Modern Europe, British Museum...

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