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.