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| − | Hotchkis was involved with the library of Shrewsbury School, making donations and creating a catalogue of its holdings, but he [[bequest::bequeathed]] his own "books and [[format::manuscript|papers]]" to his [[beneficiary::brother]], [[family::Richard Hotchkis|Richard]. Examples: Many of his manuscripts and correspondence survive in the Shropshire Archives and the British Library. Printed books from his library have been identified in the Gunnerusbiblioteket, Universidad de Salamanca ([https://brumario.usal.es/permalink/34BUC_USAL/8ka9h0/alma991006842029705773 BG/11806]), and University of Glasgow ([https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b3057690 Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.10]). | + | Hotchkis was involved with the library of Shrewsbury School, making donations and creating a catalogue of its holdings, but he [[bequest::bequeathed]] his own "books and [[format::manuscript|papers]]" to his [[beneficiary::brother]], [[family::Richard Hotchkis|Richard]]. Examples: Many of his manuscripts and correspondence survive in the Shropshire Archives and the British Library. Printed books from his library have been identified in the Gunnerusbiblioteket, Universidad de Salamanca ([https://brumario.usal.es/permalink/34BUC_USAL/8ka9h0/alma991006842029705773 BG/11806]), and University of Glasgow ([https://eleanor.lib.gla.ac.uk/record=b3057690 Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.10]). |
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Latest revision as of 01:39, 13 October 2024
Leonard HOTCHKIS 1691-1771
Biographical Note
Son of Richard Hotchkis of Chirbury, Shropshire. BA St John's College, Cambridge 1712, MA 1716. curate of Upton Magna from 1718; perpetual curate of Uffington from 1734; schoolmaster of Shrewsbury School 1735-1754; perpetual curate of Battlefield from 1749; and rector of Ryton from 1762.
Books
Hotchkis was involved with the library of Shrewsbury School, making donations and creating a catalogue of its holdings, but he bequeathed his own "books and papers" to his brother, Richard. Examples: Many of his manuscripts and correspondence survive in the Shropshire Archives and the British Library. Printed books from his library have been identified in the Gunnerusbiblioteket, Universidad de Salamanca (BG/11806), and University of Glasgow (Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.10).
Characteristic Markings
Hotchkis used a Chippendale armorial bookplate (Franks 15434), and there are also examples of his name being inscribed in his books.
Sources
- CCEd Clergy of the Church of England Database.*
- Will of Reverend Leonard Hotchkis, Clerk of Shrewsbury , Shropshire, The National Archives PROB 11/973/27.
- Fisher, G.W., Annals of Shrewsbury School (London, 1899).
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Paget, T.P., Notes on benefactors to the library of Shrewsbury school. Repr. from Eddowes's journal (1851) Available via Google Books.
- Information from Aming Shi.