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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[CAMDEN 
as a printer, but afterwards set up in the grocery business. 
He got into touch with Messrs. Duff and Booth, who were 
keenly interested in natural history, and together they were 
practically the founders of the old Bishop Auckland 
Naturalists’ Field Club. Calvert began to collect, and ob- 
tained many excellent specimens, a number of which are in 
the possession of members of his family to-day. For upwards 
of fifty years he led a busy life; but as the result of an 
affliction he was forced to spend the greater part of his time 
at home, and to occupy himself he wrote the notes which 
led to the publication of the undernoted work. He died at 
Bishop Auckland on February 21, 1891, at the age of seventy- 
five years. 
1884. Notes on the Geology & Natural History of the County of Durham. 
Bishop Auckland : 1884. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. iv un. + pp. 184, folding geol. map. 
(Pub. 5s.) 
Birds at ch. x. pp. 123-36, comprising list with annotations. 
Camden (William), 1551-1623 
William Camden, antiquary and historian, was educated 
at Christ’s Hospital and St. Paul’s School, and afterwards 
proceeded to Oxford as a servitor. Having been excluded 
from a fellowship at All Souls by the Catholic Fellows, he 
left Oxford and commenced to travel about England collect- 
ing archaeological material, probably under the patronage 
of Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster. Camden be- 
came an usher at Westminster School in 1575, and head 
master in 1593. In 1586 he published his Britannia , a small 
12mo volume in Latin, which passed through many editions. 
He held the office of Clarenceux King of Arms, and founded 
a Chair of History at Oxford. For further particulars vide 
Diet. Nat. Biog. 
1610. Britain, ( or | A Chorographicall | Description of the most | 
flourishing Kingdomes, England, | Scotland, and Ireland, and 
the | Islands adjoyning . . . | Beautified with Mappes of the | 
Severall Shires of England : | Written first in Latine by William 
Camden | Clarenceux K. of A. | Translated newly into English by 
