| LC control no. | n 85310579 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Stow, John, 1525?-1605 |
| Variant(s) | Stow, Mr. (John), 1525?-1605 Stowe, John, 1525?-1605 Seymour, Robert, 1525?-1605 Stow, Iohn, 1525?-1605 |
| Associated country | England and Wales England |
| Located | London (England) |
| Birth date | 1525? [1524,1525] |
| Death date | 16050405 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Place of death | London (England) |
| Field of activity | History English poetry Editing Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting |
| Profession or occupation | Historians Antiquarians Book editors Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting |
| Found in | His The abridgement of the English chronicle ... 1611: t.p. (John Stow) DNB (Stow, John, 1525?-1605; chronicler and antiquary) InU/Wing STC files (usage: Robert Seymour; Mr. Stow; John Stowe) LC data base, 3/18/86 (hdg.: Stow, John, 1525?-1605) nuc89-79053: A Suruay of London [MI] 1603 (hdg. on CSt rept.: Stow, John, 1525?-1605; usage: Iohn Stow) Oxford dictionary of national biography, 20 May 2015 (Stow (Stowe), John (1524/5-1605); also spelled his own name Stowe; historian; born in the parish of St Michael Cornhill, London; he resided in Lime Street ward at the time of his death; died in London aged eighty on 5 April 1605, was buried in the parish church of St Andrew Undershaft; wrote English with fluency and clarity, had a good command of Latin; was admitted to the freedom of the Merchant Taylors' Company in 1547 but remained for nearly 30 years a member of the subordinate Bachelors' or Yeoman Company; towards the end of his life, Stow devoted the bulk of his time to collecting historical records and to writing; antiquary; prolific, knowledgeable manuscript collector; prolific historical writer; pursued literary interests until late in life; first publication, The workes of Geffrey Chaucer, newly printed, with divers addicions whiche were never in printe before (1561); earlier Stow worked on William Thynne's Chaucer edition of 1532 and in his own work corrected and enlarged it along lines severely criticized by later authorities; later he supplied his notes to Thomas Speght, who incorporated them in his edition of 1598; edited a collection of 33 works of John Skelton, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton (1568); most famous work, A Survey of London (1598, expanded second edition 1603), a topographical survey of the city and its suburbs; made significant contributions to the famous second edition of Holinshed's Chronicles (1587)) |
| Associated language | eng lat |
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