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He was the son of John Dunkin of
Bicester, Oxfordshire, by his wife, Elizabeth, widow of John Telford, and daughter of Thomas and Johanna Timms, was born at Bicester on 16 May 1782. While attending the free school of that town, he met with a severe accident, and for many years it was feared that he
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After these extracts from Mr Alfred John Dunkin's articles in the
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Dartford, where three years previously he had commenced to build himself a large printing establishment. Shortly afterwards he opened a branch business at Gravesend. In 1844, he published his
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The following year was devoted principally to re-examinations of the towns, villages, &c., together with a personal superintendence of the great excavations he was conducting at
Ambrosden and Bicester,
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would remain a cripple for life. He employed the leisure thus imposed upon him chiefly by scribbling verses, but contrived at the same time to pick up some knowledge of history and archæology.
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Bullington and Ploughley, Oxfordshire, for which he had previously collected large materials. His son writes:
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History and Antiquities of Bicester. .. To which is added an Inquiry into the History of Alchester, a city of the Dobuni. … With an Appendix and … Kennetts Glossary
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History and Antiquities of Bromley in Kent. … To which is added an investigation of the Antiquities of Holwood Hill
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of Lincolnshire, a well-known civil engineer, by whom he left a son,
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