Robert Nash 1691/2-1752
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Robert NASH or NAISH 1691/2-1752
Biographical Note
Son of Samuel Nash of London. BA Wadham College, Oxford 1711, fellow 1715, BCL 1731, MA 1734. He became chancellor of Norwich in 1732 and assisted Francis Blomefield in the compilation of his History of Norfolk.
Books
Nash used two engraved armorial bookplates, the first probably made in the early 1730s (Franks 21572), the second a decade or so later (Franks 21573). The extent of his library is not known; in his will, he bequeathed all his law books, "whereof he hath no duplicates in his won study", to William Baker of Norwich Cathedral. The rest of his books were to be divided equally between his four sisters.
Sources
- Will of Robert Nash, the National Archives PROB 11/796/31.
- Blatchly, J., Some Suffolk and Norfolk ex-libris, London, 2000, p.31-2.
- Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.