Short answers, pulled from the story.
John Aubrey was born on the 12th of March 1626 at Easton Piers near Kington St Michael in Wiltshire. He grew up as an only child within a wealthy gentry family that traced its roots to the Welsh Marches.
In 1649 John Aubrey discovered megalithic remains at Avebury which became central to his life work. He later mapped these sites and discussed them extensively in Monumenta Britannica written between 1663 and 1693.
The manuscript Chronologia Architectonica written in 1671 resides in Bodleian Library as MSS Top.Gen.c.24 and 25. His surviving county antiquities work Hypomnemata Antiquaria is now held as Bodleian MS Aubrey 3 while another copy sits at Royal Society MS 92.
John Aubrey died of apoplexy while traveling on the 7th of June 1697 aged seventy-one years old. Burial occurred in churchyard of St Mary Magdalen Oxford where his final resting place remains today.
Critics viewed John Aubrey merely as entertaining gossip rather than serious scholar for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Only beginning in the 1970s did full appreciation emerge regarding breadth and innovation of his scholarship through editorial recoveries.