Cambridge University Library: Supplement to the Manuscripts Catalogue 1732-1748

Parne Thomas 1694-1751

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Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), antiquary and bibliophile, was born at Manchester on 2 July 1792, and attended Rugby and University College, Oxford. Over the course of his life Phillipps developed an extensive collection of books and manuscripts, including old Welsh poetry and oriental manuscripts. Around 1822 he established a private printing press, and thereafter printed cartularies, genealogies, visitations, extracts from registers, and catalogues of manuscripts held in libraries. He was cr...

Thomas Parne

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Thomas Parne (1694-1751) was educated at Bedford School, before matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1714, where he became a scholar in 1717, and fellow in 1720 (B.A., 1718; M.A., 1721; B.D., 1729; D.D., 1739). He was University librarian, 1734-1751, and chaplain to King George II, 1744-1751. Parne died on 11 July 1751. The first home of Cambridge University Library was at the buildings now known as the 'Old Schools', developed during the fifteenth century. In...