View source for John Thurloe Brace 1686/7-1737

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===[[name::John]] [[name::Thurloe]] [[name::BRACE]] [[date of birth::1686;1687|1686/7]]-[[date of death::1737]]===
[[file:BraceJohnThurloe.JPG|thumb|Brace's bookplate, in corrected state (British Museum Franks Collection 3437)]]
====Biographical Note====
Son of [[family::Francis Brace d.1712|Francis Brace]] of [[location::Bedford]], [[occupation::lawyer]]. Matriculated at [[education::Trinity College, Cambridge]] 1702, but did not graduate; admitted at the [[organisations::Inner Temple]] 1705. Through his mother [[family::Ann Thurloe|Ann]], daughter of [[family::John Thurloe]], he inherited an estate at [[location::Astwood, Buckinghamshire]], which he sold in 1735. [[occupation::MP]] for [[location::Bedford]] 1715-28; "lived a loose kind of life", according to the antiquary William Cole.

====Books====
Brace inherited some books from his brother [[crossreference::Francis Brace|Francis]] in 1724; like him, he used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 3436/3437), which exists in two states. What is presumably the earlier version (3436) describes him as of "Ashwood", which was corrected to "Astwood" (3437). In his will, Brace directed that all his books, except such as he had already given to his daughter [[family::Anna Maria Brace|Anna Maria]], should go to his son [[family::Harris Thurloe Brace]], once he turned 21 (in 1738; at the time of the making of the will, Harris was a student at Oxford).

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*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D659238 Will of John Thurloe Brace, The National Archives PROB 11/683/402].
*[http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1715-1754/member/brace-john-thurloe-1685-1735 History of Parliament].
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
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