Henry Pierrepont 1607-1680
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Henry PIERREPONT, Marquis of Dorchester 1607-80
Biographical Note
Statesman and courtier, with scientific and botanical interests.
Books
His library of ca.2000 books was bequeathed to the Royal College of Physicians where much of it remains today.
Sources
- Fulton, J. The library of Henry Pierrepont, Journal of the History of Medicine 14 (1959), 89-90.
- Payne, L. & C. Newman, The Dorchester Library, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians 4 (1970), 234-45.
- Purcell, M. The country house library. New Haven & London, 2017, 95.
- Seddon, P. R. "Pierrepont, Henry, marquess of Dorchester (1607–1680), royalist nobleman." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.