Robert Barker d.1581

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Robert BARKER d.1581

Biographical Note

Vicar of Driffield, Yorkshire.

Books

His library of ca.150 books included many late medieval manuscripts inherited from a relative, who was the last prior of Byland. He directed that his library should be kept together, but much of it passed in the early seventeenth century to Henry Savile.

Sources

  • Hoare, P. (gen.ed.), The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006.I 405.
  • Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.