Thomas Bowdler, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Thomas Bowdler

English physician and editor

Date of Birth: 11-Jul-1754

Place of Birth: Bath, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 24-Feb-1825

Profession: writer, physician, chess player

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Thomas Bowdler, LRCP, FRS (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825) was an English doctor best known for publishing The Family Shakespeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's plays.
The work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, was intended to provide a version of Shakespeare that was more appropriate than the original for 19th-century women and children.
Bowdler also published several other works, some reflecting his interest in and knowledge of continental Europe.
Bowdler's last work was an expurgated version of Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1826 under the supervision of his nephew and biographer, Thomas Bowdler the Younger. The verb bowdlerise (or bowdlerize) has linked his name with the censorship or omission of elements deemed inappropriate for children, not only in literature but also in motion pictures and television programmes.