Author talk:Joshua Brooking Rowe
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[edit]- Probate calendar death 1908
- Death registration, giving year age for birth 1836/7
- 1901 census states solicitor - Supreme Court
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[edit]Name: Joshua Brooking Rowe
Birth - Death: 1837-1908
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- Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP)
- The Dictionary of National Biography. Second Supplement. Three volumes. Edited by Sir Sidney Lee. London: Smith, Elder & Co., . (DcNaB S2)
Allibones
[edit]Rowe, Joshua Brooking, F.S.A., F.L.S., b. 1837, at Plymouth; admitted an attorney 1860: secretary of the Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society. The Ecclesiastical History of Old Plymouth, and the Parish, Vicars, and Church of St. Andrew, Plymouth, 1877. Privately printed.
"Here is an excellent book which many an 'outside' antiquary or historian would be heartily glad to possess, but of which he may find it difficult even to get a sight" Oat. Rev., xliv. 624.