About Rowley Lascelles
Lived 1771 – 1841 (aged 69–70). Rowley Lascelles was a writer and barrister.
Rowley Lascelles (1771 – 19 March 1841) was an English antiquarian and archivist.
Life Lascelles was born in Westminster, London in 1771, and studied at Harrow School before qualifying as a barrister; he was a member of Middle Temple in London and the King's Inns in Dublin, and practised in Ireland for about twenty years. He was appointed to edit documents relating to the Irish court of chancery by the records commissioners for Ireland, but when it was published (volume 1 in 1824, volume 2 in 1830), his "partisan tone gave so much offence that... it was practically suppressed",
Works Lascelles's major work was Liber munerum publicorum Hiberniae, published in 1852 after his death, with a preface by Francis Sheppard Thomas. An index to the work was published in 1877.
A number of articles in the Gentleman's Magazine, under the pseudonym "Yorick", have been attributed to Lascelles.
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Who was Rowley Lascelles?
British antiquarian
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Rowley Lascelles was born in 1771.
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Rowley Lascelles died on 19 March 1841.
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Rowley Lascelles was a writer and barrister.
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