William Camden was born
in London in 1551. Educated at Christ's Hospital,
St. Paul's School, and Oxford
University, he began working at Westminster
School in 1575 and was appointed headmaster in 1593.
In his free time Camden
travelled the country and eventually published
Britannia, a geographical survey of England, Scotland and
Ireland. This was followed by Annales Britannia
(1615), a description of the reign of Elizabeth
I.
Camden also wrote an account
of the trial of the conspirators in the Gunpowder
Plot and a list of epitaphs in Westminster Abbey. William Camden
died in 1623.
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