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Born in London and educated at Christ Church, Oxford,  he started travelling through Europe in 1833, proceeding then on to Egypt and the Holy Land in 1833-4, on a tour of research where he obtained many valuable manuscripts. He has been criticised for removing these manuscripts and bringing them to Britain. He returned to England in 1834.  A second tour was undertaken in 1837-8, where he again bought manuscripts from monasteries and more purchases in Egypt. The account of his travels he published as Visit to the Monasteries in the Levant (1849). \r\n\r\nHis collection of manuscripts was put on deposit by his son in the British Museum in 1876 and his daughter bequeathed the collection to the museum upon her death in 1917.  A group of 114 objects was purchased by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&amp;A) in 1891 from the collection of Lord Zouche for £5000. 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