Edward Waple
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Edward WAPLE 1647-1712
Biographical Note
Son of Christopher Waple, of London. BA St John's College, Oxford 1667, MA 1671, BD 1677. Prebendary of Wells 1667, canon of Winchester 1690; vicar of St Sepulche, London 1683, archdeacon of Taunton 1682.
Books
Waple bequeathed his library (ca.1860 volumes, plus ca.300 duplicates sold) to Sion College; the Sion library is now in Lambeth Palace Library, where most of the books remain today.
Sources
- Book label of Edward Waple.
- Foster, J. Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford 1500-1714/1715-1886, 8 vols, Oxford, 1891.
- Pearce, E. Sion College and Library, Cambridge, 1913, 274-5.