Samuel Hibbert-Ware (21 April 1782 – 30 December 1848), born Samuel Hibbert in St Ann's Square

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, was an English

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and antiquarian.

Life

He was the eldest son of Samuel Hibbert (d.1815), a linen yarn merchant, and his wife Sarah Ware, from

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. Hibbert was granted an MD and became a Fellow of the

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. He served as the secretary of the Society of Scottish Antiquarians, a member of the Royal Medical and Wernerian Societies of Edinburgh, as well as a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society being elected on 5 March 1895. . His book ''Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions'' (1825) is an early skeptical work that gave possible physical and

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explanations for sightings of

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s. He died at Hale Barns,

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on 30 December 1848. He is buried in Ardwick cemetery in

Publications

*'' A Description of the Shetland Islands: Comprising an Account of their Scenery, Antiquities and Superstitions'' (1822) Reprinted 1891. *''Illustration of the Customs of a Manor in the North of England During the Fifteenth Century'' (1822)
''Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; Or, An Attempt to Trace Such Illusions to Their Physical Causes''
(1825) *''History of the Extinct Volcanos of the Basin of Neuwied, on the Lower Rhine'' (1832) *''On the Fresh-Water Limestone of Burdiehouse in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh'' (1835) *''Lancashire Memorials of the Rebellion, MDCCXV'' (1845)

References

External links

Hibbert-Ware Papers

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1782 births 1848 deaths 19th-century English antiquarians English geologists English sceptics British parapsychologists People associated with Shetland Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Fellows_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London {{UK-geologist-stub