Fettiplace Nott 1670/1-1726

Fettiplace NOTT 1670/1-1726

Biographical Note

Son of Charles Nott of London and Eleanor (Fettiplace). Admitted to the Inner Temple in 1696, according to its admissions register, although the bookplates listed below have him there in 1694. Admitted at the Middle Temple in 1690. ‘William Fettiplace Nott, Esq.’ was listed by Thomas Harwood as a Steward of Lichfield between 1699 and 1726; ‘William’ was presumably an error. Described as Serjeant-of-Law in the burial register of Bickenhill Church, Warwickshire. Married Sarah (Hammond).

His son and heir Fettiplace Nott (1702/3-75 ), Steward of Lichfield 1762-9, was admitted at the Middle Temple in 1720 and called to the bar in 1726, making it conceivable that the third of the bookplates listed below belonged to the latter.

Books

The nature and content of his library (and that of his son) are not established.

Gambier Howe lists the following armorial bookplates for this name: Franks 22062 ‘of the Inner Temple, London, Esqr. 1694’; *443 (another impression of the last plate); 22063 ‘Esqr. of the Middle Temple, London’ (the last plate reworked)’.

Examples: British Library 1606/594 (with bookplate referring to Inner Temple); Bonhams, Printed Books, Maps and Photographs, Oxford 25 June 2014, lot 233 (with bookplate referring to Middle Temple).

Sources

• Cossins, J.A. ‘St Peter’s Church, Bickenhill’, Transactions… Birmingham Archaeological Society, 14 (1887), 26-37.
• Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
• Harwood, T. The History and Antiquities of the City of Lichfield. Glocester, 1808.
• Reade, A.L. Johnsonian Gleanings. Part IX. London, 1939.