antiquary

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James, the English antiquary and ghost-story writer, to whose work I am devoted.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2021

Yet Irwin is hardly a dry-as-dust antiquary, and “Wonders Will Never Cease” frequently reveals the wide range of his reading: His description of the world’s end was obviously adapted from H.G.

From Washington Post • Dec. 27, 2017

Hingley writes of the 19th-century Newcastle antiquary John Clayton, who bought as much as he could of the land through which Hadrian's wall ran, and rebuilt tracts of it.

From The Guardian • Feb. 15, 2013

Among the many strange sights that evening were parliamentary records being flung from windows, while the antiquary Thomas Phillipps ran about picking them up from the cobbles.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2012

I strode forward with the enthusiasm of an antiquary, and the high-beating heart of a patriotic Irishman.

From Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland by Crocker, T. Crofton