Walter Chetwynd 1633-1693
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Sir Walter Chetwynd 1633-93
Biographical Note
Of Ingestre, Staffordshire; MP, antiquary.
Books
Numerous books with his armorial stamps survive. Listed in Edward Bernard's Catalogi manuscriptorum, 1697, as owning 22 manuscripts. The Chetwynd family library was auctioned in London, 18.5.1821.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Greenslade, M. W. "Chetwynd, Walter (1633–1693), county historian." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Maggs, catalogues of the London booksellers Maggs Bros: 1212 (1996)/39.