Bowdler, Thomas

Education

Student United College 1770-1771 Logic class. (Secondar)

Chancellor’s prize general Greek theme, 1771.

Birth/childhood

Born 4.1.1754 younger son of Thomas Bowdler, gentleman, Ashley.

Career

Also at Edinburgh University - M.D. 1776.

F.R.S., F.S.A. Edited The Family Shakespeare etc. [Editor]

Publication.

The Family Shakespeare: in which nothing is added to the orginal text, but those words and expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family. 9th ed., edited by Thomas Bowdler. (London: Longman, Brown, etc., 1847)

etc.

Death

Died at Rhyddings near Swansea [Wales] 24.2.1825.

Sources

  • DNB
  • John Bowdler, Memoir of the late John Bowdler to which is added some account of Thomas, London, 1825
  • Thomas Bowdler in Wikipedia.