John Dunton 1628-1676
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John DUNTON 1628-1676
Biographical Note
Of Buckinghamshire. BA Trinity College, Cambridge 1649. Rector of Grafham, Huntingdonshire 1650; went to Ireland 1660 as chaplain to Sir Henry Ingoldsby. Rector of Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire 1668; father of the bookseller of the same name.
Books
Dunton's library was auctioned in London, 29.11.1680, as part of a joint sale with the books of Henry Stubb and three others; the sale catalogue runs to over 13,000 lots but does not distinguish which books came from which source.
Characteristic Markings
None of Dunton's books have been identified.
Sources
- Alston, R. C., Inventory of sale catalogues ... 1676-1800, St Philip, 2010.
- Catalogus variorum librorum ... D. Henry Stubb [etc], [London, 1680], ESTC r31959.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.