Nicholas Pollexfen 1678-1715

Nicholas POLLEXFEN 1678-1715

Nicholas Pollexfen's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection *423)

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.