Editing William Camden (section)

==Final years==
[[File:William Camden.png|thumb|Camden (by [[Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger]], 1609)]]
In 1609 Camden moved to [[Chislehurst]] in Kent, now south-east London.<ref name=odnb>Herendeen 2008.</ref> Though often in ill health, he continued to work diligently. In 1622 he founded an endowed lectureship in history at Oxford – the first in the world – which continues to this day as the [[Camden Professor of Ancient History]].<ref name=odnb/> That same year he was struck with [[paralysis]].<ref name=odnb/> He died at Chislehurst on 9 November 1623, and was buried at [[Westminster Abbey]], where his monument, incorporating a demi-figure of Camden holding a copy of the ''Britannia'', can still be seen in the south transept ("[[Poets' Corner]]").<ref name=odnb/>

Camden left his books to his former pupil and friend [[Sir Robert Cotton, 1st Baronet, of Connington|Sir Robert Cotton]], the creator of the [[Cotton library]].<ref name=odnb/> His circle of friends and acquaintances included [[William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley|Lord Burghley]], [[Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke|Fulke Greville]], [[Philip Sidney]], [[Edmund Spenser]], [[John Stow]], [[John Dee (mathematician)|John Dee]], [[Jacques de Thou]] and [[Ben Jonson]], who was Camden's student at Westminster and who dedicated an early edition of ''[[Every Man in His Humour]]'' to him.<ref name=odnb/><ref>Levy 1964.</ref><ref>Herendeen 2007, pp. 97, 294–303, 496.</ref>