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Henry Thomas Riley (June 1816 – 14 April 1878) was an English translator, lexicographer, and antiquary.

Riley was called to the bar at the Inner Temple on 23 November 1847, but early in life he began hack work for booksellers to make a living, by editing and translation.

Works

For Bohn's Classical Library, Riley translated:

His Dictionary of Latin Quotations (1856 and 1860), was included in the same series.

For Bohn's Antiquarian Library, he translated the Annals of Roger de Hoveden (1853, 2 vols.); and Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland (1854).

For the Rolls Series, he edited the Munimenta Gildhallae Londoniensis, including the Liber Albus (1859), the Liber Custumarum (1860, in two parts), with a translation of the Anglo-Norman passages, and a glossary (1862); the Chronica Monasterii S. Albani, comprising the Annals of John Amundesham (1870 and 1871, 2 vols.); and a further set of the chronicles of St. Albans, in eleven volumes, including the works of Thomas Walsingham, John of Trokelowe, Henry de Blaneford, and William Rishanger, and the register of John Whethamstede.

Riley translated for the corporation of the city of London the Liber Albus (1861) and the Chronicles of the Mayors and Sheriffs of London, 1188–1274, from the Latin and Anglo-Norman of Arnald Fitz-Thedmar; with the French Chronicle of London, 1259–1343, from the Chroniques de London (1863). He also published in 1868 a volume entitled Memorials of London and London Life, a series of Extracts from the City Archives, 1276–1419.

Riley wrote in the Athenaeum, the Gentleman's Magazine, and the Archaeological Journal. He contributed to the eighth edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.




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