Matthew bloxham biography

For the MP, see Matthew Bloxam (MP).

Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (12 May – 24 April ), a native of Rugby, Warwickshire, England, was a Warwickshire antiquary and amateur archeologist, author of a popular guide to Gothic architecture. He was the original source of the legend of William Webb Ellis' invention of the game of Rugby football.

Biography

Bloxam was born on 12 May at Rugby, son of the Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, an assistant master at Rugby School, and his wife Ann, sister of Sir Thomas Lawrence He was one of ten children, his brothers including Andrew Bloxam and John Rouse Bloxam.^[1]

Bloxam was educated at Elborow School before attending Rugby School between and In he was articled to George Harris, a solicitor in Rugby.^[1] He did not find success in the profession when he went into practice on his own account, and in he became clerk of the court, a post he held for 40 years.

He is remembered as an antiquarian on Rugby and the surrounding area. In he successfully located the Roman town of Tripontium nearby. His work was published in two books and many journal articles; although many of his conclusions are now thought doubtful, his collection of archaeological finds still exists. He lived in what is now the Percival Guil

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BLOXAM, Matthew (), of Highgate, Mdx. and Morden, Surr.

Family and Education

bap. 10 Aug. , 1st s. of Rev. Matthew Bloxam of Comberton, Worcs. by Elizabeth, da. of Henry Turner of Gloucester. educ. his father’s sch. m. 4 Jan. , Elizabeth Ann, da. of William Baker, stationer, of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, 1s. 1da. Kntd. 19 June

Offices Held

Sheriff, London , alderman ; vol. London and Westminster light horse

Master, Stationers’ Co. ; storekeeper to Stationery Office d.

Biography

Bloxam, a self-made businessman apprenticed to a London stationer in , rose to be principal of the firm of Foudrinier, Bloxam and Walker, wholesale stationers, of Lombard Street: by he could claim that they were ‘the first wholesale house in London’.1 As sheriff of London he interested himself in the treatment of arrested debtors and founded the sheriffs’ fund for debtors.2 His return for Maidstone as a ministerial supporter in was sponsored by John Brenchley of the Southwark bank, whose partnership (Sanderson, Harrison and Brenchley of St. Margaret’s Hill) Bloxam joined in

Bloxam always had to fight for his seat for Maidstone and enlisted government patronage.3 He stated in that he had uniformly supported government. By he had ceased to favour the claims to relief of religious dissen

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History

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wappen	Club & role		Appointed	In charge until	Matches	PPM
	Cardiff U21 Assistant Manager	21/22 (Dec 17, )	-	-
	Cardiff U18 Manager	14/15 (Sep 1, )	21/22 (Dec 16, )	5
	Cardiff City Yo Manager	07/08 (Jul 1, )	14/15 (Aug 31, )	-