William Camden
(1551-1623) English antiquarian · Writers · Died at 72
William Camden was an English antiquarian, historian, topographer, and herald, best known as author of Britannia, the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relates landscape, geography, antiquarianism, and history, and the Annales, the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I.
William Camden is read about 56 times a day, in 29 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
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Hand-coloured frontispiece and title page of the 1607 edition of Britannia
Camden at centre as Clarenceux King of Arms in the funeral procession of Queen Elizabeth I, 1603
Frontispiece and title page of a 1675 edition of the Annales
Camden (by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, 1609)
The William Camden, a pub in Bexleyheath, several miles from Chislehurst, Kent, where Camden lived in later lifeAbout this person
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Lived 1551 to 1623 · aged 72
