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Pollexfen used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks *423); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.
 
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*[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/pollexfen-nicholas-1678-1715 History of Parliament].
 
*[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/pollexfen-nicholas-1678-1715 History of Parliament].

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Nicholas POLLEXFEN 1678-1715

Nicholas Pollexfen's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection *423)

Biographical Note

Son of Nicholas Pollexfen, of St Stephen Walbrook, London, a wealthy merchant. After his father died in the late 1680s he fell out with his family. MP for Great Bedwyn, 1705-08; excise commissioner 1710-12.

Books

Pollexfen used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks *423); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.

Sources

  • History of Parliament.
  • Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.