Edward Duke

Edward Duke (1779–1852), was an English antiquary.

Life Born in Hungerford on 24 September 1779, Duke was the second son of Edward Duke of Lake House, Wiltshire, and Fanny, daughter of John Field of Islington. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 1803, M.A. 1807. He was ordained in 1802, and engaged in clerical work at Turkdean, Gloucestershire, and Salisbury. In 1805 he came into the estates and the mansion at Lake, which had been in his family since 1578.

He also published Prolusiones Historicæ, or Essays illustrative of the Halle of John Halle, citizen … of Salisbury (temp. Henry VI and Edward IV), vol. i. (only), Salisbury, 1837, 8vo, about John Halle's Hall, a medieval hall building in Salisbury. Duke was an active Wiltshire magistrate, and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Linnean Society.