Henry Wriothesley
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Henry WRIOTHESLEY, 3rd Earl of Southampton 1573-1624
Biographical Note
Born at Cowdray House near Midhurst in Sussex; son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton (d.1581). Admitted to St John's College, Cambridge
Courtier, literary patron.
Books
Gave £100 to the Bodleian Library in 1605; at the end of his life, he bought ca.1000 books and ca.200 manuscripts of William Crashaw’s to give to St John’s College, Cambridge.
Sources
- Honan, Park. "Wriothesley, Henry, third earl of Southampton (1573–1624), courtier and literary patron." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Jayne, S. Library catalogues of the English renaissance. Godalming, 1983, 152.