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| − | Massey compiled and published a catalogue of the town library of [[location::Wisbech]] in 1718, and a [[format::manuscript]] catalogue of the library of the [[organisations::Royal College of Physicians]] in 1727. he used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 19929), made ca.1720. Some of his correspondence, and other manuscript material, survives in the Sloane Manuscripts in the [[present repository::British Library]]. | + | Massey compiled and published a catalogue of the town library of [[location::Wisbech]] in 1718, and a [[format::manuscript]] catalogue of the library of the [[organisations::Royal College of Physicians]] in 1727. he used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 19929), made ca.1720; the extent and disposition of his library is not known. Some of his correspondence, and other manuscript material, survives in the Sloane Manuscripts in the [[present repository::British Library]]. |
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Richard Middleton MASSEY 1678-1743
Biographical Note
Son of Edward Massey, of Rostherne, Cheshire. Matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford 1697, but did not graduate; he was later awarded an MD by the University of Aberdeen in 1720. He became an extra-licenciate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1706 (honorary fellow, 1726), and began practising as a physician in Wisbech. Around 1720 he moved to Stepney and towards the end of his life retired to Rostherne. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1712, and of the Society of Antiquaries in 1718.
Books
Massey compiled and published a catalogue of the town library of Wisbech in 1718, and a manuscript catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727. he used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks 19929), made ca.1720; the extent and disposition of his library is not known. Some of his correspondence, and other manuscript material, survives in the Sloane Manuscripts in the British Library.
Sources
- Fellows of the Royal Society.
- Munk's Roll, Royal College of Physicians.
- Arthur, J. (ed), Medicine in Wisbech and the fens, 1985.
- A catalogue of books in the library at Wisbech, [Cambridge?], 1718, ESTC t14356.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.