Robert Wood (antiquarian)
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Robert Wood (antiquarian)
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Robert Wood was an Irish-British traveller, classical scholar, civil servant and politician. He was the son of the Revd James Wood of Summerhill, County Meath and educated at Glasgow University (1732) and the Middle Temple (1736). His father was a patron of Hercules Rowley of Summerhill House. In 1750–1751 Wood travelled around the Levant with two wealthy young Oxford scholars James Dawkins and John Bouverie and an Italian draftsman Giovanni Battista Borra. Their primary goal was to explore the
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Irish-British traveller, classical scholar, civil servant and politician
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wood_(antiquarian)
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2006-07-26T18:55:26Z
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2024-09-15T02:25:24Z
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