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Thornton was much involved in reforming and refashioning [[organisations::Hereford Cathedral Library]], partly at his own expense. He enforced the payment of installations fees for Library income, created a donors' book (1611), and built chained bookcases, largely modelled on those in the [[organisations::Bodleian Library]]. He bequeathed a [[format::manuscript]] and 28 printed books to the Library, including a number of [[subject::history|chronicles]].
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Thornton was much involved in reforming and refashioning [[organisations::Hereford Cathedral Library]], partly at his own expense. He enforced the payment of installations fees for Library income, created a donors' book (1611), and built chained bookcases, largely modelled on those in the [[organisations::Bodleian Library]]. He [[bequest::bequeathed]] a [[format::manuscript]] and 28 [[format::printed]] books to the [[beneficiary::Bodleian Library|Library]], including a number of [[subject::history|chronicles]].
  
 
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Revision as of 04:52, 17 June 2020

Thomas THORNTON ca.1541-1629

Biographical Note

BA Christ Church, Oxford 1560, MA 1563, BD 1570, DD 1583; Canon of Christ Church 1568, Vice-Chancellor 1583, 1599. Canon of Hereford Cathedral and of Worcester 1573, Master of Ledbury Hospital, custos of Hereford Cathedral Library 1595-7, 1610-17.

Books

Thornton was much involved in reforming and refashioning Hereford Cathedral Library, partly at his own expense. He enforced the payment of installations fees for Library income, created a donors' book (1611), and built chained bookcases, largely modelled on those in the Bodleian Library. He bequeathed a manuscript and 28 printed books to the Library, including a number of chronicles.

Sources

  • Foster, J. Alumni Oxonienses. Oxford, 1891.
  • Leedham-Green, E. and Webber, T. (eds), Cambridge history of libraries vol. 1, Cambridge, 2006, p.394-5.
  • Morgan, F. C. and P. E., Hereford Cathedral Library and Muniments, 2nd edn, Hereford, 1975.