Henry Fanshawe Tozer


Rev. Henry Fanshawe Tozer, FBA was an English writer, teacher, traveler, and geographer. His 1897 History of Ancient Geography was well-regarded.

Biography

Tozer was born in Plymouth, Devon, the eldest son of Capt. Aaron Tozer of the Royal Navy. After graduating from Exeter College, Oxford, in 1850, he was tutor there from 1855 to 1893 and was also curator of the Taylor Institution from 1869 to 1893. His brother-in-law was Ernest Mason Satow. Fanshawe had a particular interest "in the intersection of geography and the classics". He traveled much in Greece and in European and Asiatic Turkey.
He died in 1916 in Oxfordshire. His funeral service was held in Exeter College Chapel. He was interned at Holywell Cemetery.

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