(1720–76) [Bi]
British antiquary well known for excavations into Anglo-Saxon burial grounds between 1757 and 1773, mainly in Kent. His work was published in 1856 under the title Inventorium sepulchrale. A Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Faussett was a cleric by profession and had livings in Shropshire and Kent.
[Bio.: Dictionary of National Biography, 6, 1114]




