"David Cathcart King is well known to all students of the castle: the stocky figure with a slightly aggressive manner, a regular attender for over forty years at the outings of the Cambrians and at one time its President, the lister of Welsh castle with Dr Hogg and of ringworks with Professor Alcock, and compiler of the invaluable list of castles in England and Wales, Castellarium Anglicanum"
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D. J. Cathcart King
1913 – 1989
David James Cathcart King (1913–1989) was a British medieval historian and archaeologist who specialised in the study of castles.
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