Nicholas Pollexfen 1678-1715
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Nicholas POLLEXFEN 1678-1715
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Biographical Note
Son of Nicholas Pollexfen, of St Stephen Walbrook, London, a wealthy merchant. After his father died in the late 1680s he fell out with his family. MP for Great Bedwyn, 1705-08; excise commissioner 1710-12.
Books
Pollexfen used an engraved armorial bookplate (Franks *423); the extent and disposition of his library is not known.
====Sources----
- History of Parliament.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.