Edward Willson: Catalogue of books and manuscripts 1857-1884

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Edward Willson: Catalogue of books and manuscripts 1857-1884

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Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

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Willson, Edward James, 1787-1854

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Willson, Edward

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Edward James Willson (1787-1854), antiquary and architect, was born in Lincoln on 21 June 1787. He superintended the repair and restoration of churches in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, and designed his own churches. He was employed on the restoration of Lincoln Castle, 1834-1845. Willson contributed to John Britton's Architectural antiquities, 1807-1826, and to Augustus Charles Pugin's Specimens and Examples of Gothic architecture, 1821-1831. He was mayor of Lincoln in 1852, where he died on...