John Harington 1592-1614
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John HARINGTON, 2nd Baron Harington 1592-1614
Books
In 1616 Anne (ca.1554-1620), widow of John, 1st Baron Harington (1539/40-1613) gave ca.120 books to found a parish library for Oakham, Rutland; in 1626 her daughter Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (1581-1627) gave books to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Both sets are likely to have belonged originally to John the 2nd Baron, and/or other members of the family.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
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- Healy, Simon. "Harington, John, second Baron Harington of Exton (bap. 1592, d. 1614), courtier." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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- Perkin, M. A directory of the parochial libraries of the Church of England. London, 2004, 309-10.
- Scott-Warren, J. Sir John Harington and the book as gift, 2001.