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Ormerod, George

Record IDcnp01089237
URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01089237
Gendermale
Biographical Data1785 - 1873
Place of BirthManchester (GB)
Place of DeathSedbury Park (GB)
Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Historian of Cheshire. Born in Manchester. Educated King's School, Chester 1798-9, tutored by Revd Thomas Bancroft 1799-1803. Matriculated Brasenose College, Oxford 1803, B.A. 1806, honorary M.A.1807. Elected F.S.A in 1809. Began work on his history of Cheshire 1809. Bought Chorlton House, Cheshire, 1811. History of Cheshire published in ten parts 1816-9. Honorary D.C.L., Oxford, 1818. F.R.S in 1819. Sold Chorlton House 1823. Became proprietor of Sedbury Park, Glos., on the peninsula of Beachley, between the Severn and the Wye, 1825. JP for Gloucestershire 1827, Monmouthshire 1830. Deputy lieutenant for Gloucestershire 1861. Died at Sedbury Park 1873. His library was sold in 1875.
Historien local et antiquaire

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Further Biographical Data1785-1873
1785-1873
20.10.1785-09.10.1873
1785-1873
Intellectual ResponsibilityAuteur
Primary Language(s)English
ActivityArchäologe (gnd)
Historiker (gnd)
Archäologe
Geographic NoteGB (iso3166)
Großbritannien
NationalityUnited Kingdom
Place of BirthManchester (GB (1785)
Place of DeathSedbury Park (GB (1873)

Place of Activity

Place of BirthManchester (GB) (1785)
Lieu de naissance
Place of DeathSedbury Park (GB) (1873)
Lieu de mort

Names

HeadingOrmerod, George
used in: The University of Aberdeen Library
Ormerod, George
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany
Ormerod, George
used in: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Sources

Found inProv. Reg. Notes (DNB). — LOC. — DNB. — BN Cat. gén.. — Oxford DNB - http://www.oxforddnb.com (2006-03-01). — The history of the county palatine and city of Chester / compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss.,... incorporated with a republication of (Daniel) King's ″Vale Royal″ and (Peter) Leycester's ″Cheshire antiquities″, by George Ormerod ; 2d edition... by Thomas Helsby, 1882
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Drawing by I. Jackson
[Scanned by myself / George Ormerod's History of Cheshire, second edition, George Routledge, London -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George Ormerod.jpg]

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