Autograph letter signed from Charles Pratt to Sneyd Davies [manuscript], 1742/43 February 5.

George, William, 1697-1756

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Camden, Charles Pratt, Earl, 1714-1794

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Lord Chancellor. From the description of Autograph letter signed, in the third person : Lincoln's Inn Fields, to Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore, 1773 May 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870477 ...

Davies, Sneyd, 1709-1769

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Sneyd Davies, poet, classical scolar and cleric, was the second son of Dr Davies, Rector of Kingsland, Herefordshire. He was born at Shrewsbury in 1709 and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he formed lasting friendships with Charles Pratt, later to become Lord Camden, the Lord Chancellor, and Frederick Cornwallis, who became Archbishop of Canterbury. Under the terms of his father's will he inherited the living at Kingsland at the age of just twenty-two, and after...

Whaley, John

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John Whaley studied at Eton and was admitted to Cambridge on scholarship in 1728 (B.A. 1732, M.A. 1735); he was a Fellow of King's College (1731-45), assistant master at Eton, and a private tutor. Whaley's publications include: A collection of poems (1732) and Original poems and translations (1745).The buyer, noted on the receipt, was James West. West was a politician and noted bookcollector. As R. Charles Lucas notes, in his work, Book-collecting in the eighteenth century: The library of James ...