Joseph Gillow
Joseph Gillow (5 October 1850 in Preston, Lancashire – 17 March 1921 in Westholme, Hale) was an English Roman Catholic antiquary and bio-bibliographer, "the Plutarch of the English Catholics".[1]
Biography
Born to a recusant English Roman Catholic family, Joseph Gillow was educated at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw. In 1878 he married Ella McKenna, a brewer's daughter, securing him a private income allowing him to pursue his antiquarian interests.[2]
Gillow published various researches into the history of Roman Catholicism in Lancashire, but his greatest achievement was the Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics (5 vols, 1885-1902). To fit his material into the five volumes allotted him by his publishers, he needed to abbreviate the later volumes.[2] No index was available until 1986.[3] Gillow was appointed honorary recorder of the Catholic Record Society at its foundation in 1904, and was a frequent contributor.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Thomas Bridgett, in The Catholic Who's Who and Yearbook, 1908; quoted in ODNB.
- ^ a b J.F.X. Bevan, ‘Gillow, Joseph (1850–1921)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; accessed 1 August 2008
- ^ Bevan, J. F. X., Index and finding list to the bibliographical dictionary, 1986
- ^ Catholic Records Volume List 1-76, catholic-history.org.uk; accessed 21 October 2014.
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