Researching Thomas Bowdler
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 600 people with the Bowdler surname? In that year Bowdler was ranked number 2979 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Thomas means "a twin" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Thomas Bowdler on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Thomas Bowdler and the Bowdler Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 842 people with the Bowdler surname in the UK? Bowdler is now ranked number 3249 for popularity in the UK. |
Bowdler Family History Databases
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Thomas Bowdler
Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS ( 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English physician known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler. They sought a version they saw as more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children. Bowdler also published works reflecting an interested knowledge of continental Europe. His last work was an expurgation of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. The term bowdlerize links the name with expurgation or omission of elements deemed unsuited to children, in literature and films and on television.
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Other names that sound a bit like Bowdler
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