About Frederick Apthorp Paley
Lived 1815 – 1888 (aged 73). Frederick Apthorp Paley was a British classical scholar, writer and botanist.
Frederick Apthorp Paley (14 January 1815 – 8 December 1888), was an English classical scholar.
Life Born at Easingwold in Yorkshire, to Rev. Edmund Paley and Sarah (née Apthorp), he was the grandson of William Paley, and brother of architect E.G. Paley, and was educated at Shrewsbury School and St John's College, Cambridge (BA 1838).
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English classical scholar (1815–1888)
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Frederick Apthorp Paley was born on 14 January 1815 in Easingwold.
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Frederick Apthorp Paley died on 8 December 1888 in Boscombe.
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Frederick Apthorp Paley was a classical scholar, writer and botanist.
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Frederick Apthorp Paley was British.
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