Broadwood, Rev. John
Broadwood, Rev. John (b 1798; d Lyne, 1864). Eng. clergyman and folklorist. Member of pf. firm family and one of earliest collectors of Eng. folk-songs. His Old English Songs of Surrey and Sussex was pubd. 1843.
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