Stow, John, English antiquary, born in London; bred a tailor; took to antiquarian pursuits, which he prosecuted with the zeal of a devotee that spared no sacrifice; wrote several works on antiquities, the chief and most valuable being his “Survey of London and Westminster”; he ended his days in poverty (1525‒1605).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stourbridge * Stowell, William Scott