William Henry Blaauw (1793–1870) was an English antiquarian and historian, particularly active in Sussex.

Life

Blaauw was born in London on 25 May 1793. His father William Blaauw, of Queen Anne's Street, was a Dutch immigrant, from a line of

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s of

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; William's second wife, Louisa Puller was daughter of Christopher Puller of Woodford, Essex. William's elder daughter from his first marriage (to Anne Charlotte, daughter of Charles Le Maitre), Maria Anne, was the first wife of the politician Thomas Gardiner Bramston.A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland, fourth edition, vol. I, Sir Bernard Burke, 1862, p. 104, Blaauw of Beechland pedigree He was educated at

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and Christ Church, Oxford, where, taking a first class in classics, he graduated B.A. in 1813, and M.A. in 1815. He was elected a fellow of the

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in 1850, was treasurer of the

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for many years, and was a member of other learned societies. Blaauw lived at

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in East Sussex, and founded the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1846. He was the editor of the society's journal, '' Sussex Archaeological Collections'', until 1856, when the eighth volume was issued; and was its honorary secretary until 1867. Blaauw died on 26 April 1870. Blaauw contributed a sum of money to benefit the railroad business in Belton, South Carolina.

Works

Blaauw's major work was a history of the

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, first published in 1844. A revised edition was issued posthumously by Charles Henry Pearson as editor in 1871. Between 1846 and 1861 Blaauw contributed papers on Sussex archaeology to the ''Sussex Archaeological Collections''. He communicated a paper on Queen Matilda and her daughter to '' Archæologia'' (xxxii. 108) in 1846, and he showed archaeological objects at meetings of the Society of Antiquaries and Archaeological Institute.

Family

Blaauw married first Harriet King in 1825. She was daughter of John King who was Permanent Under-Secretary for the Home Department 1791-1806, son of the Very Rev. Dr. James King, Dean of Raphoe, and a younger brother of Capt. James King F.R.S. and Rt. Revd.

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, Bishop of Rochester; he was briefly a Member of Parliament in 1806-7 & Joint Secretary at the Treasury, and had married Harriot Margaret, daughter of Rt. Rev. Charles Moss Bishop of Bath & Wells. Dying in 1828, Harriet left him two daughters, both of whom died young. He then married Margaret Emily Gillman, daughter of Sir John St Leger Gillman, Baronet; they had two sons, Henry (who died unmarried) and Thomas (whose son Henry inherited Beechland; by the 1920s it was no longer owned by the family), and a daughter, Emily, who married a cousin of her father's first wife, Captain the Hon. Charles Cornwallis Chetwynd, the fourth son of the 6th

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and had five daughters.The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, The Mortimer-Percy Volume, Part I, The Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, Heritage Books, 2001 (reprint of 1911 publication), p. 500

Publications

* ''The Barons War'' (London, 1871)

Notes

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* Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Blaauw, William Henry 1793 births 1870 deaths People educated at Eton College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English antiquarians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London People from Newick