User:DavidShaw

Here is a link to my WWW home page where you can find information about my general interests and activities.

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Canterbury
I have been doing some work on pages with a Canterbury connection:
 * Canterbury
 * Music : new section for the Canterbury page
 * Canterbury Cathedral
 * Canterbury Archaeological Trust —- new page created.
 * Kentish Post —- new page created.
 * Kentish Gazette —- error corrected and link to Kentish Post
 * Canterbury Catch Club (sandbox page)
 * Mayors of Canterbury -- category created for mayors who already have a page: needs a new page with a chronological list of all Canterbury mayors-- (sandbox page)
 * Eastbridge Hospital -- revision of original article using Marjorie Lyle new edition of Ingram Hill's book.

Canterbury historical figures

 * Thomas Clark (of Canterbury) -- new page created and disambiguation links
 * William Flackton -- update and correction
 * John Battely -- additional details and references
 * James Simmons (1741-1807), newspaper proprietor, banker, business entrepreneur, M.P.
 * James Abree, (18th-century Canterbury printer)

I intend to create or add to pages for
 * John Lewis (Vicar), antiquarian (sandbox page)
 * John Duncombe (writer) -- expand the page
 * Henry John Todd -- scholar and librarian, Six Preacher (sandbox page)

Deans
I have been inserting succession boxes for individual Deans of Canterbury and filling in gaps (in progress): to do:
 * New page for Charles Fotherby, Dean 1615-1619.
 * new page for John Lynch, Dean 1734-1760.
 * new page for William Friend, Dean 1760-1766.
 * new page for John Potter, Dean 1766-1770.
 * new page for Thomas Powys, Dean 1747-1809.
 * improve the page for John Boys, Dean 1619-1625
 * improve the page for Isaac Bargrave, Dean 1625-1643

Archdeacons
I have contributed to a fuller list of and created articles for some of them: with others planned.
 * post-Reformation Archdeacons of Canterbury
 * William Warham (Archdeacon), nephew of Archbishop William Warham
 * Benjamin Harrison (Archdeacon of Maidstone)

Vidoue (talk) 18:42, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Canons
Edward Meetkirke (or Meetkerke) (1590–1657) was educated at King's School, Canterbury (King's Scholar, 1603-1604 [CCA DCc Treasurer's Book]), and then at Westminster School, where he was taught Hebrew by Adrian Saravia (ODNB). He was Regius Professor of Hebrew at Oxford from 1621 to 1626 (ODNB) and occupied Stall VI at Winchester Cathedral from 1631. The Benefactors' Book at Canterbury Cathedral records a gift to the Library. He died in 1657 (Le Neve, Fasti, III, iii, 98).
 * Méric Casaubon -- canon and Anglo-Saxon scholar
 * Pierre Du Moulin -- Calvinist minister; canon of Canterbury
 * Edward Meetkerke --

Six Preachers
I have prepared a new page for the college of Six Preachers of Canterbury Cathedral and for some of the individual names.


 * John Cooke (Six Preacher) [done]
 * John Durant (Six Preacher) and Independent pastor.

Palaces of the Archbishops of Canterbury

 * List of medieval palaces added to and annotated.

Historical bibliography
I'm also intending to add articles on 15th- and 16th-century French printers and other bibliographical topics:


 * Pierre Vidoue : new page created
 * Jodocus Badius : revised page
 * Ulrich Gering : new page created
 * Guy Marchant : rewritten page
 * Jean Petit (bookseller) : page needed


 * The Bibliographical Society (of London) new page created
 * R.B. McKerrow new page created
 * H. R. Plomer -- page proposed based on obit in BibSoc Dictionaries


 * Bastarda -- new paragraph on type face versions


 * Johann Georg von Werdenstein -- book collector, benefactor of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- (done)

Peter de Blois
The source for my (possibly arguable) belief that Peter de Blois was archdeacon of Canterbury came fro the source http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=34351

Let me know what you think. I will defer to your greater knowledge of the subject.

Plucas58 (talk) 14:22, 4 March 2012 (UTC)