Aubrey, John 1626-1697.
English biographer and antiquary. His Lives,
begun in 1667, contains gossip, anecdotes, 
and valuable insights into the celebrities of
his time. Unpublished during his lifetime, a 
standard edition of the work appeared as 
Brief Lives 1898 in two volumes (edited by A
Clark).  Aubrey was the first to claim
Stonehenge as a Druid temple. Aubrey was born
in Wiltshire.  He studied law but became
dependent on patrons, including the antiquary
Ashmole and the philosopher Hobbes. 
Miscellanies 1696, a work on folklore and 
ghost stories, was the only one of his books
to be published during his lifetime. 
His major work, Brief Lives, and his 
observations on the natural history of Surrey
and Wiltshire were published posthumously.
A one- volume edition of three of his works
Miscellanies, Remaines of Gentilisme and 
Judaisme, and Observations appeared 1972
under the title Three Prose Works (edited by
J Buchanan-Brown).

Subject by: Russell Webb