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Nicholas WANTON 1544?-1618

Biographical Note

A member of the Grocers’ Company in London, who lived and died in York in the late 16th/early 17th century.

Books

A number of surviving books in American libraries with Wanton’s inscription, motto and numbering system suggest that he had a library of at least 900 volumes.

Sources

  • Williams, F. B. John Bodenham, Studies in philology 31 (1934) 198-214, 213-4.