Charles Ventris 1661-1719

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Charles VENTRIS 1661-1719

Biographical Note

Probably the son of John Ventris of Campton, Bedfordshire. Matriculated at Clare College, Cambridge 1679, but did not graduate; admitted at the Inner Temple 1680.

Books

Ventris's library was sold by retail sale in London, beginning 9 May 1720; no catalogue survives, but the sale was advertised in the Daily Courant as comprising "valuable, modern, and uncommon books, in Greek, Latin, French and English, in most faculties".

Sources

  • Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010
  • Venn, J. & J. A. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge, 1922.