NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Surtees, Robert, 1779-1834 NRA: Surtees Robert (1779-1834) antiquary and topographer DNB: Surtees, Robert (1779-1834), historian LBT ID: RoSurte1834 VIAF ID: 10196202 | B/BAP: 1779-04-01 DIED: 1834-02-11 |
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File | |
English antiquary and historian educated at Christ Church, Oxford; his county history of
Durham began appearing in 1816. Reginal Heber and Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe were among his
schoolmates and Sir Walter Scott was a friend. | |