John Tregonwell d.1680
From Book Owners Online
John TREGONWELL 1635-81
Biographical Note
High sheriff of Dorset, 1670.
Books
Gave ca.60 books to the church of Milton Abbas, Dorset, as a thankful acknowledgment of God’s mercy in preserving him when he fell from the top of the church; most of these books were destroyed in 1940 as war salvage.
Sources
- Perkin, M. A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England. London, 2004, 285.