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  1. 1740-1807. English archaeologist, a
  2. pioneering discoverer of Old Stone Age
  3. (Palaeolithic) tools in association with
  4. large extinct animals at Hoxne, Suffolk, in
  5. 1790. He suggested (long before Charles
  6. Darwin) that they predated the conventional
  7. biblical timescale. Frere was high sheriff of
  8. Suffolk and member of Parliament for Norwich.
  9.