Andrew Cranston d.1708
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Andrew CRANSTON d.1708
Biographical Note
Vicar of Reigate, Surrey. Founded the parish library of Reigate in 1701, to which he gave ca.160 books.
Sources
- Perkin,M., A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England, London, 2004, p.326-9.
- Sherlock, Peter.'"Cranston, Andrew (d. 1708), creator of a public library."' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.