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| Born | 1812 | ||||||||
| Died | 1879 | ||||||||
| Residence | 44 Bessborough Gardens SW and Dartford Kent | ||||||||
| Occupation |
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Alfred John Dunkin (1812–1879) was a Scottish antiquary and historian.
A.J. Dunkin is mentioned in the collections mentioned by Richard Martin they were acquired by Deptford Reference Library in 1941 and 1956.
A04/8 and A04/9.
The former consists of the two volumes of corrected proofs of Dunkin's 'Deptford' (1854), with large numbers of loose papers inserted. They are notes by Dunkin, lettters to him from other antiquaries, newscuttings, and other ephemera. These volumes were purchased in 1941, with a good provenance starting with Dunkin's daughter.
A04/9 is a collection of miscellaneous papers relating to Deptford history assembled by Dunkin and similar to the items inserted in the proofs. They were given to Deptford by Dartford Libraries, where the much larger Dunkin collection relating to that area was retained.
E.H.W. Dunkin was the son of Edwin W. Hadlow Dunkin (1821-1898), the astronomer, who lived from 1871 until his death at 27 Kidbrooke Park Road, Blackheath, but it is not known whether they were related to A.J.Dunkin. We have two letters of E.W.H. Dunkin as A58/2/62-3, but one is social, the other astronomical.
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'Deptford' (1854)
Dunkin had an honest love for antiquities, but his writings contain little that is valuable. The lighter essays which he contributed to periodicals, and of which he afterwards reprinted a few copies, are simply inane. The following is probably an incomplete list:[2]
1. Nundinæ Cantianæ. Some Account of the Chantry of Milton-next-Gravesend, in which is introduced a notice of Robert Pocock, the history of Dartford Market and Fair, together with remarks on the appointment of Grammar School Feoffees generally, duodecimo, Dover, 1842 (twelve copies printed).
2. Legendæ Cantianæ. William de Eynsford, the excommunicate; a Kentish legend, octavo, London, 1842 (twenty-five copies printed).
3. Nundinæ Floraliæ. Fugitive Papers. May Day, May Games, &c., octavo, Dover, 1843 (twelve copies printed).
4. Nundinæ Literariæ. Fugitive Papers. Christmas Eve, Christmas, Easter, Whitsuntide, Harvest-Time, and the Morris Dancers, duodecimo, Dover, 1843 (twelve copies printed).
5. The Reign of Lockrin: a poem. Remarks upon modern poetry. Second edition with additions. The History of Lockrin, &c., octavo, London, Dartford (printed, 1845).
6. Memoranda of Springhead and its neighbourhood during the primeval period (without author's name), octavo, London, 1848 (one hundred copies privately printed).
7. History of the County of Kent, 3 vols. octavo, London, 1856–58–55 [–77].
