Richard Steward
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Richard STEWARD 1595-1651
Biographical Note
Dean of Chichester 1643-42, Provost of Eton 1639-44 (ejected), subsequently went to the continent with the exiled English court.
Books
More than 370 books were seized from him by the London Committee for Sequestration in 1643, when they were valued at £110.
Sources
- Browell, Geoffrey. "Steward, Richard (bap. 1595, d. 1651), dean of Chichester." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Matthews, A. G. Walker revised. Oxford, 1948.
- Roy, I. The libraries of Edward, 2nd Viscount Conway, and others, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 43 (1968), 35-46.