Thomas Percy was Bishop of Dromore, County Down, Ireland. Before being made bishop, he was chaplain to George III of the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
Born: April 13, 1729, Bridgnorth, United Kingdom
Died: September 30, 1811 (age 82 years), Dromore, United Kingdom
Edited works: Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, The Percy Folio of Old English Ballads and Romances, Authentic memoirs of the Christian church in China: from the German of J.L. de Mosheim. Of the art of laying out gardens among the Chinese, by Mr. Chambers, architect. A description of the Emperor's garden and pleasure houses near Peking, from the French of Frere Attiret, Jesuit. A description of the solemnities observed at Peking on the Emperor's mother entering on the sixtieth year of her age, from the French of P. Amyot, Jesuit, and more
Education: Christ Church
Books
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry
1765
Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript: Ballads and Romances
1867
Five pieces of runic poetry
1763
Bishop Percy's folio manuscript
The hermit of Warkworth
1771
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, Together with Some Few of Later Date
1765