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Strutt, Joseph

 
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About the Author:

"Joseph Strutt (born 1749 in Chelmsford, Essex; died 1802) was an English engraver and antiquary.

Joseph Strutt, engraver, artist, antiquary and author, was born at Chelmsford in 1749. In 1770 he became a student of the Royal Academy, and in the following year secured both the gold and silver medals, the former for oil painting and the latter "for the best Academy figure." He wrote the "Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of England," followed by other works on the manners and customs of the English people, that on their "Sports and Pastimes" the chief.

There is a house named for him at King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, where he was once a pupil." (Quote from wikipedia.org)

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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England is a cultural history of the English people.

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