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For the Anglican divine and nephew of this person, see Thomas Bowdler the Younger.
Thomas Bowdler
LRCP FRS
Title page of Bowdler's best-known work
Born
11 July 1754
Bath, Somerset, England
Died
24 February 1825(1825-02-24) (aged 70)
Swansea, Wales
Occupation(s)
Physician, editor
Notable work
The Family Shakspeare (1807)
Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS (/ˈbaʊdlər/; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825[1]) was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler. The two sought a version they saw as more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Bowdler also published works reflecting an interested knowledge of continental Europe. His last work was an expurgation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. From his name derives the eponym verb bowdlerise or bowdlerize, meaning expurgate, censor [sth], that is the omission of elements deemed unsuited to children, in literature and films and on television.[2]
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