Author:Walter Rye

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Walter Rye
(1843–1929)
English solicitor, athlete and antiquary

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "W. R." in vol. 5, 28, 33 and "W. R-e." in vol. 41.

Works[edit]

  • An index to Norfolk topography (1881) (external scan)
  • Some rough materials for a history of the hundred of North Erpingham in the County of Norfolk (1883) in 2 vols.
  • A history of Norfolk (1885) (external scan)
  • Report on the Manuscripts of the Family of Gawdy, Formerly of Norfolk (1885) (external scan)
  • A Short Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Norfolk (1886) (external scan)
  • Cromer, past and present (1889) (external scan)
  • A Glossary of Words Used in East Anglia (1895) (external scan)
  • An index rerum to Norfolk antiquities (1899) (external scan)
  • Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History. A Calendar of the Feet of Fines for Suffolk (1900) (external scan)
  • A Short Calendar of the Deeds Relating to Norwich (1903) (external scan)
  • The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany (1906) (external scan)
  • A list of coat armour used in Norfolk before the date of the first herald's visitation of 1563 (1917) in 2 vols.
  • Scandinavian names in Norfolk: hundred courts, mote hills, toothills, and Roman camps and remains in Norfolk (1920) (external scan)
  • RHS Bibliography (external scan)
  • Records and record searching; a guide to the genealogist and topographer

Contributions to the DNB[edit]

Works about Rye[edit]


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1929, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 94 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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