Samuel Bromsgrove d.1718?

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Samuel BROMESGROVE or BROMSGROVE or BROOMSGROVE d.1718?

Biographical Note

Son of Walter Bromesgrove of Carlton, Lincolnshire. BA Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1690, MA 1693/4. Preacher at the Tabernacle, Spitalfields (also known as Wheeler's Chapel).

Books

Bromesgrove's books were sold by retail sale in London from 6 March 1718, alongside those of an unnamed 'person of quality'. Advertisements in the Daily Courant describe the items for sale as being a 'valuable Collection of English, Latin, Greek, Italian, and French Books, in most Faculties, Divinity, History, Mathematicks, Voyages, Travels, Poetry, Physick, Surgery, &c'.

Sources

  • Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800, St Philip, 2010.
  • CCEd Clergy of the Church of England Database.
  • A catalogue of the libraries of the Revd Mr. Broomsgrove, of Wheeler's Chapel, Spittle-fields, and a person of quality, deceased, [London, 1718], ESTC N43885.