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George Grazebrook
1831–1917
A careful English antiquary and heraldic writer, he devoted much of his life to family history, local records, and the study of coats of arms. His books and papers open a window onto the patient detective work behind genealogy and historical research in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
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The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and Examples
by George Grazebrook
About the author
Born in 1831, George Grazebrook was a British writer and antiquary whose work centered on heraldry, genealogy, and local history. An obituary published by the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire says he was the son of Henry Grazebrook, later became his father's business partner in Liverpool in 1855, and retired from business in 1891 before living near London and later at Clent in Worcestershire.
Grazebrook was active in learned historical circles and was a member of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. He was also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His published work included studies such as The Earl Marshal's Court in England and The Dates of Variously-shaped Shields, with Coincident Dates and Examples, as well as editorial and genealogical work connected with Shropshire pedigrees and other historical records.
He died on August 11, 1917, aged eighty-six. Today he is remembered less as a novelist or literary celebrity than as a diligent specialist whose writings preserve details of English families, institutions, and heraldic traditions that might otherwise have been lost.