Samuel Lysons FSA (17 March 1806 – 27 March 1877) was an

antiquarian An antiquarian or antiquary () is an fan (person), aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifact (archaeology), artifac ...

and early proponent of

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Early life

Samuel Lysons was born on 17 March 1806, the eldest surviving son of Daniel Lysons. His uncle was the English engraver

Samuel Lysons Samuel Lysons (1763 – June 1819) was an English antiquarian and engraver who, together with his elder brother Daniel Lysons (1762–1834), published several works on antiquarian topics. He was one of the first archaeologists to investigate ...

. The Lyson's family was prominent and well known within

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from the 17th century onwards, having connections with the parishes of Rodmarton and Cherington.

Career

Samuel Lysons became rector of Rodmarton of which he was patron, in 1833. In 1841 he arranged the construction of Church of St Luke in the expanding area of

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known as

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. He resigned in 1866. From November 1865 he was rural dean of Gloucester and two years later he was appointed as an honorary canon of

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. He was also a successful author; his ''Our British Ancestors'' (1865) received good reviews and was considered an early text on British Israelism. He was a fellow of the

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(FSA), and a member of the Archaeological Institute and the Cotteswold Naturalists' Society.

Personal life

He married three times and had six children, all by his first wife, Eliza Sophia Moore. He died on 27 March 1877 and was buried at

Rodmarton Rodmarton is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire. History Evidence of a Roman settlement has been found at Rodmarton. Through the parish runs a Roman trackway from Cirencester and Chavenage Green, adjacent to which is a long barrow ...

.D8460 - Lysons family of Rodmarton and Hempsted.
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Selected publications

* ''Conjectures concerning the Identity of the Patriarch Job, his Family, the time in which he lived, and the Locality of the Land of Uz.'' Oxford, 1832. * ''The Romans in Gloucestershire, and the results of their Residence in this Country, considered in an Historical, Social, and Religious point of view.'' London, 1860. * ''The Model Merchant of the Middle Ages, Exemplified in the Story of Whittington and his Cat, being an attempt to rescue that interesting story from the region of fable &c.'' London, 1860. *
Claudia and Pudens; or the early Christians in Gloucester; a Tale of the first Century
'' London, 1861. * ''Gloucestershire Illustrations. No. 1. Machin and Madeira: an Attempt to investigate the Truth of the Discovery … of that Island.'' Gloucester, 1861. (No more was published) * ''What has Gloucestershire achieved? Being an enumeration of some of the principal points in which that County has taken a prominent lead in matters Religious, Moral, … and Scientific.'' Gloucester, 1861. *
Our British Ancestors: Who and What Were They? An inquiry serving to elucidate the traditional History of the Early Britons by means of recent Excavations, Etymology, … Inscriptions, Craniology, &c.
' John Henry & James Parker, Oxford & London; J. Headland, Gloucester, 1865. * ''Our Vulgar Tongue. A Lecture on Language in general, with a few Words on Gloucestershire in particular. … With Appendix containing Tables of the world-wide Affinity of Languages.'' London, 1868.

References

External links

* Lysons Family Collection. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lysons, Canon Samuel Clergy from Gloucester English antiquarians British Israelism 1806 births 1877 deaths

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Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London