Thomas Smith 1638-1710

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Thomas SMITH 1638-1710

Biographical Note

Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, deprived as a nonjuror 1692, librarian of the Cotton Library.

Books

Gave oriental mss to the Bodleian, bequeathed mss to Thomas Hearne, on condition that they subsequently passed to the Bodleian.

Sources

Harmsen, Theodor. "Smith, Thomas (1638–1710), scholar." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. W. D. Macray, Annals of the Bodleian Library. 2 nd edn, Oxford, 1890, 208-9.