bronze plaque · London

Alexander Cruden MA

Alexander Cruden 1690-1770 Humanist scholar and intellectual. Born Aberdeen, educated Marischal College, came to London 1719 as tutor, appointed Book Seller to Queen Caroline in 1737, compiled the Concordance to the Bible, died here in Camden Passage, November 1st. 'whom niether infirmity nor neglect could debase' Nelson 1811

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