Sheppard Frere 1712-1780
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Sheppard FRERE 1712-1780
Biographical Note
Son of Edward Frere, of Thwaite Hall, Suffolk. Matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge 1732, but did not graduate; he was admitted at Lincoln's Inn, 1734. He bought an estate at Roydon Hall, Norfolk.
Books
While a fellow-commoner at Trinity College, Frere had a book label made; he later used two different engraved armorial bookplates, made some years apart (Franks 11400, 11401, 11405). The extent of his library is not known; it would have been inherited, as part of the residue of his estate, by his son John (also a bookplate user).
Sources
- Blatchly, J., Some Suffolk and Norfolk ex-libris, London, 2000, p.56-74.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.