Thomas Glover 1704-1737

Thomas GLOVER 1704-1737

Glover's bookplate, from a copy of S. Woodford, A paraphrase upon the canticles, 1679, Princeton University Library 3996.227.369

Biographical Note

Son of John Glover of Bishopsgate, London, gentleman. BA Christ Church, Oxford 1728; curate of Hawkhurst, Kent from 1729 until his death.

Books

Glover used an engraved armorial bookplate, dated 1736, on which he described himself as Minister of Hawkhurst (Franks 12036); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.

Sources

• Clergy of the Church of England Database.
• Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J., Franks bequest. Catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed ... by Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, London, 1903-4.