View source for Thomas Alured ca.1632/35-1708

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===[[name::Thomas]] [[name::ALURED]]  ca.[[date of birth::1632;1635|1632/35]]-[[date of death::1708]] or later===

====Biographical Note====
Born in [[place of birth::Hull]], son of [[family::John Alured]], [[occupation::landowner]] and later a parliamentarian [[occupation::army officer]] and regicide.  BA [[education::Trinity College, Cambridge]] 1654.  Admitted at [[organisations::Gray’s Inn]], 1655, called to the [[occupation::lawyer|Bar]] 1666.  [[occupation::Recorder]] of [[location::Beverley]] (i.e. chief professional officer of the town corporation), 1688-1700; his appointment was briefly challenged on the grounds of nonconformity.  

====Books==== 
Following the foundation of Beverley parish library   in 1699, Alured [[bequest::gave]] ca. 400 volumes in [[date of bequest::1701]] and [[date of bequest::1708]], listed in the donors’ book.  The library was much neglected in succeeding centuries (the books were apparently used to light church fires in 1856) and only a few volumes survive today, deposited in [[present repository::York Minster Library]].

====Sources====
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*Baggs, A. P. et al, ''A History of the County of York East Riding: Volume 6, the Borough and Liberties of Beverley'', ed. K J Allison (London, 1989), [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/east/vol6 British History Online].
*Perkin, M. ''A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England''.  London, 2004.
*Venn, J. & J. A. ''Alumni Cantabrigienses''. Cambridge, 1922.
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