The Reverend Henry Fanshawe Tozer, FBA (18 May 1829 – 2 June 1916) was a

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writer, teacher, traveller, and geographer. His 1897 ''History of Ancient Geography'' was well-regarded.

Biography

Tozer was born in

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, the eldest son of Capt.

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of the Royal Navy. After graduating from

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, in 1850, he was tutor there from 1855 to 1893 and was also

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of the

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(Oxford) from 1869 to 1893. His brother-in-law was

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. Fanshawe had a particular interest "in the intersection of geography and the classics".Koelsch, William A. “Henry Fanshawe Tozer: A ″Missing Person″ in Historical Geography?” ''Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers'', vol. 72, 2010, pp. 118–127. JSTOR
/ref> He travelled much in

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and in European and Asiatic

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. He died in 1916 in Oxfordshire. His funeral service was held in Exeter College Chapel. He was interred at

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in Oxford.

Works

* ''Researches in the Highlands of Turkey'' (two volumes, 1869)
''Lectures on the Geography of Greece''
(1873) * ''Primer of Classical Geography'' (1877) * Finlay, George, ''A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time : B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864'', rev. by Tozer, Henry Fanshawe, 7 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1877) * ''Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor'' (1881) * ''The Church and the Eastern Empire'' (1888)

(1890) * ''Selections from Strabo'' (1893)
''History of Ancient Geography''
(1897) * ''An English Commentary on Dante's

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'' (1901) * Translation of the ''Divina Commedia'' (1904)

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tozer, Henry Fanshawe Writers from Plymouth, Devon English curators Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford 1829 births 1916 deaths English male writers Translators of Dante Alighieri Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford Burials at Holywell Cemetery