Francis Drake (antiquary)

Francis Drake (Janairu 1696 - 16 Maris 1771) ɗan asalin Ingilishi ne kuma likitan fiɗa, wanda aka fi sani da marubucin tarihin York, wanda ya ba wa Eboracum bayan sunan Romawa ga birnin.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Drake a Pontefract, inda mahaifinsa, Reverend Francis Drake, ya kasance vicar, kuma aka yi masa baftisma a can ranar 22 ga Janairu 1696. Babban ɗan'uwansa shi ne limamin coci Samuel Drake. Yayin da yake matashi, an horar da shi ga wani likitan fiɗa a York mai suna Christopher Birbeck. Birbeck ya mutu a 1717, kuma, yana da shekaru 21, Drake ya ɗauki aikin. Bayan shekaru goma an nada shi zuwa babban ofishin likitan tiyata na birnin York.

 Aure 
A cikin 1720, a York Minster, Drake ya auri Mary Woodyeare, 'yar tsohon sakataren Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet. Akwai ’ya’ya maza biyar, biyu ne kawai suka tsira da rayukansu. Mary Drake ta mutu a shekara ta 1728 tana da shekaru 35 kuma an binne ta a cocin St Michael le Belfrey, inda akwai abin tunawa da bangon ta.

 Eboracum 
Drake ya kasance yana sha'awar tarihi kuma ya gaji rubuce-rubucen tarihi da dama. A cikin 1729, ya tuntubi Thomas Hearne, yana neman taimako wajen tattara tarihin York, amma bai yi nasara ba. Mijin ƙanwarsa, duk da haka, wanda malamin makaranta ne a Leeds, ya ƙarfafa shi, kuma, tare da taimakon wasu masana tarihi da masu tattarawa da yawa, ya fara aiki. An yarda da bayar da taimakon Drake tare da Eboracum: John Anstis, Brian Fairfax, Roger Gale, George Holmes, Henry Keepe, Benjamin Langwith, da Browne Willis.Barr, C. Bernard L. "Drake, Francis". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/8023. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)Lee, Sidney, ed. (1892). "Keepe, Henry" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

A watan Afrilun 1731, Drake yana neman izinin kamfanin birnin don neman izinin duba takardun tarihin da ke kula da shi, kuma kamfanin, tare da ba shi damar yin haka, ya zabe shi £ 50 don biyan kuɗi da kuma buga hotuna na littafinsa. Wani £50 ya ba da gudummawa ta Lord Burlington, wanda ya ceci Drake daga gidan yari na rashin adalci saboda bashi kuma shi ne ya sadaukar da littafin.

Eboracum, littafi mai girman folio mai kusan shafuka 800 tare da taken Tarihin da Kaddara na Birnin York, daga Asalinsa har zuwa Yanzu; tare da Tarihin Cocin Cathedral da Rayuwar Archbishop, an buga shi a cikin 1736, yawancin kuɗin da masu biyan kuɗi 540 suka biya, waɗanda suka haɗa da Archbishop na Canterbury da Bishop na London, amma ba Archbishop na York, Lancelot Blackburne ba, saboda dalilan da ba su bayyana ba.

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