Richard Kidder 1633-1703
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Richard Kidder 1633-1703
Biographical Note
Bishop of Bath and Wells. Described as a man of many books; none were left to Wells Cathedral, but the Library there has a ms catalogue of ca.500 volumes owned by him. The collection appears to have passed to Nathaniel Brydges, Chancellor of Wells.
Sources
- Church, C., Notes on the … Library of the Dean and Chapter … of Wells, Archaeologia 57 (1901), 201-28.
- Marshall, William. '"Kidder, Richard (bap. 1634, d. 1703), bishop of Bath and Wells."' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.