John Sydenham (antiquary)
John Sydenham (25 September 1807– 1 December 1846)[1] was an English antiquary. In 1829 he became editor of the Dorset County Chronicle. In 1840 Sydenham left the Dorset Chronicle and became editor of The West Kent Guardian, a Greenwich paper. In January 1846 he returned to Poole and started The Poole and Dorsetshire Herald, of which he was editor and part-proprietor. He was one of the early members of the British Archæological Association.
Works[edit]
In 1839 Sydenham published The History of the Town and County of Poole (Poole). In 1841 he wrote Baal Durotrigensis (London), a dissertation on the Cerne Abbas Giant, in which he endeavoured to discriminate between the primal Celtæ and the later Celto-Belgæ, who emigrated from Gaul.
Personal[edit]
Sydenham was the eldest son of John Sydenham, a bookseller of Poole, Dorset, born on 25 September 1807. He was educated in his native town. In 1833 he married Anne Christiana Zillwood,[2] a daughter of William Zillwood, a schoolmaster of Dorchester, by whom he had six children. He died at Poole on 1 December 1846.
References[edit]
- ^ "Obituary: John Sydenham, Jun. Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 182, page 211
- ^ "England, Marriages, 1538–1973," index, FamilySearch (accessed 28 Oct 2012), "John Sydenham and Anne Christiana Zillwood, 1833; citing reference 2:2B0R72J, FHL microfilm 1279497
- Private information kindly given by Mr. John Zillwood Sydenham
- "Obituary: John Sydenham, Jun. Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 182, page 211
- "The Annual Meeting, Monday July 19, 1847", Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 1848, page 139
- Mayo's Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis, pp. 127, 187.
External links[edit]
Works by or about John Sydenham at Wikisource
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Sydenham, John (DNB00)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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