Benjamin Wingfield 1710-1763
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Benjamin WINGFIELD 1710-1763
Biographical Note
Son of Philip Wingfield, vicar of St Julian's, Shrewsbury. BA St John's College, Cambridge 1732, MA 1735; rector of Hanwood, Shropshire 1734, of Pontesbury 1750.
Books
Wingfield used an engraved armorial bookplate, made sometime after his 1735 graduation (Franks 32234); the extent and disposition of his library are not known.
Sources
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903-4.
- Venn, J. and J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge, 1922.