Surname Index

of

The history and antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Exeter

in

Britton, J. (Ed.). (1831). Cathedral Antiquities; Hereford 1831, Exeter, 1826.

by

John Britton

London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green

Index prepared by Michael Steer

John Britton (1771-1857), Antiquary and Topographer was born on the 7th of July 1771 at Kington-St-Michael, near Chippenham. In 1805 Britton published the first part of his Architectural Antiquities of Great Britain (9 vols., 1805 to 1814); and this was followed by Cathedral Antiquities of England (14 vols., 1814 to 1835). In 1845 a Britton Club was formed, and a sum of £1000 was subscribed and given to Britton, who was subsequently granted a civil list pension by Disraeli, then chancellor of the exchequer. Britton was an earnest advocate of the preservation of national monuments, proposing in 1837 the formation of a society such as the modern Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments. The index excludes the book's extensive appendix. This rare book was produced from a digital copy held by the Harvard University Library that can be downloaded from Google Books. Google has sponsored the digitisation of books from several libraries. Those on which copyright has expired are available for free educational and research use, both as individual books and as full collections to aid researchers.