Timothy Halton 1632?-1704

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Timothy HALTON 1632?-1704

Biographical Note

Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford. Part-funded, and oversaw, the building of a new library for Queen’s in the 1690s; bequeathed 300 books in folio, and 200 in quarto, to the college. Remainder of library auctioned in Oxford, 13.2.1706 (no catalogue survives).

Sources

Hegarty, A. J. "Halton, Timothy (bap. 1633, d. 1704), college head." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/12033. Alston, Inventory.