John Rivers 1579-1651
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Sir John RIVERS 1579-1651
Biographical Note
Son of Sir George Rivers of Chafford, Kent. Matriculated at St Mary Hall, Oxford 1596, but did not graduate; admitted at the Inner Temple, 1600. He was created a baronet in 1621 and inherited his father's estates in 1630.
Books
Numerous books with Rivers's armorial stamp survive, now widely dispersed.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Foster, J., Alumni Oxonienses, Oxford, 1891.
- Rivers baronets, Wikipedia.
- Catalogues of the London booksellers Maggs Bros: 1075 (1987)/19; 1121 (1990)/14; 1324 (2002)/83.