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Henry Fanshawe Tozer

1829 – 1916

English writer, teacher, and traveller

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Lived 1829 – 1916 (aged 87). Henry Fanshawe Tozer was a British geographer, writer and classical scholar.

The Reverend Henry Fanshawe Tozer, FBA (18 May 1829 – 2 June 1916) was a British writer, teacher, traveller, and geographer. His 1897 History of Ancient Geography was well-regarded. After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1850, he was tutor there from 1855 to 1893 and was also curator of the Taylor Institution (Oxford) from 1869 to 1893. His brother-in-law was Ernest Mason Satow. Fanshawe had a particular interest "in the intersection of geography and the classics". He travelled much in Greece and in European and Asiatic Turkey.

He died in 1916 in Oxfordshire. His funeral service was held in Exeter College Chapel. He was interred at Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.

Works Researches in the Highlands of Turkey (two volumes, 1869) Lectures on the Geography of Greece (1873) Primer of Classical Geography (1877) Finlay, George, A History of Greece from its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time : B.C. 146 to A.D. 1864, rev. by Tozer, Henry Fanshawe, 7 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1877) Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor (1881) The Church and the Eastern Empire (1888) The Islands of the Ægean (1890) Selections from Strabo (1893) History of Ancient Geography (1897) An English Commentary on Dante's Divina Commedia (1901) Translation of the Divina Commedia (1904)

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Exeter College
Awards
Fellow of the British Academy; Fellow of the Royal Society
Also known as
Henry F. Tozer

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English writer, teacher, and traveller (1829–1916)

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Henry Fanshawe Tozer was born on 18 May 1829 in Plymouth.

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Henry Fanshawe Tozer died on 2 June 1916.

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Henry Fanshawe Tozer was a geographer, writer and classical scholar.

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Henry Fanshawe Tozer was British.

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· Wikipedia: Henry Fanshawe Tozer

· Wikidata: Q5721124

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