Gerard Langbaine 1609-1658
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Gerard LANGBAINE 1609-58
Biographical Note
son of William Langbaine, was born at Barton Kirk, Westmorland. Queen's College, Oxford, from which he matriculated on 21 November 1628, BA 1630, MA 1633
deacon in 1634 and priest in 1635, he held no ecclesiastical preferment other than the vicarage of Crosthwaite, near Kendal, Westmorland, obtained in early 1643.
Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford.
Books
Gave books to Queen’s; some of his manuscripts were bought by the Bodleian library.
Sources
- Hegarty, A. J. "Langbaine, Gerard (1608/9–1658), college head." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Macray, W. D. Annals of the Bodleian Library. 2nd edn, Oxford, 1890. 126.
- Morgan, P. Oxford libraries outside the Bodleian. 2nd edn, Oxford, 1980.