Thomas Tenison 1636-1715
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Thomas TENISON 1636-1715
Biographical Note
Archbishop of Canterbury.
Books
Deposited a sizeable part of his library (ca.3-4000 volumes) in St Martin in the Fields in 1684, to found a parish library there (dispersed 1861), but withdrew some on appointment as Archbishop, and kept them at Lambeth. The 1500 volumes in his study at his death were bequeathed to Lambeth Palace; other books were bequeathed to Edmund Gibson, from whom they subsequently passed to Lambeth Palace.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Hoare, P. Archbishop Tenison’s library at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London Topographical Record 29 (2006), 127-50.
- Marshall, William. "Tenison, Thomas (1636–1715), archbishop of Canterbury." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Perkin, M. A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England. London, 2004, 271-3.