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John Ackerson Erredge
d. 1862
Best known for a vivid Victorian history of Brighton, this 19th-century writer captured the town through both research and personal observation. His major work was left unfinished by his sudden death in 1862 and completed from his manuscripts.
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About the author
John Ackerson Erredge was an English writer and local historian, generally listed as having been born around 1811 and dying in 1862. He is chiefly remembered for History of Brighthelmston; or, Brighton as I View It and Others Knew It, a substantial account of Brighton's past.
That book was published in 1862 and has been described as an early comprehensive survey of the town. Contemporary and later catalog records note that he died before completing it, and that the final pages were prepared from his manuscripts by his sons.
Reliable biographical detail about his wider life appears to be limited in easily accessible sources, so modern readers mostly encounter him through his surviving work on Brighton's history.