View source for Bartholomew Shower 1658-1701

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===Sir [[name::Bartholomew]] [[name::SHOWER]] or [[name::SHORE]] [[date of birth::1658]]-[[date of death::1701]]===
[[file:P1120443(3).JPG|thumb|Sir Bartholomew Shower's bookplate (British Museum Franks Collection *286)]]
====Biographical Note====
Born at [[place of birth::Exeter]], son of [[family::William Shower]], [[occupation::merchant]]; the family had a nonconformist background. Admitted at the [[organisations::Middle Temple]] 1676 ([[occupation::barrister]] 1680). He developed a successful legal practice, becoming King's Counsel in 1688, although his support for James II hampered his chances of advancement after 1688. He was knighted in 1687 and was briefly [[occupation::recorder]] of [[location::London]] in 1688 and published numerous legal and polemical works; some of his law reports were published posthumously. He was [[occupation::MP]] for [[location::Exeter]] 1698-1701.

====Books====
Shower used an engraved armorial bookplate (with his name as Shore; Franks *286). The extent and disposition of his library are not known; his will has no mention of books, but bequeathed most of his estate (including several houses in and around [[location::London]]) to his wife, and thereafter to a niece and nephew. He gave ca.20 books to the Middle Temple in 1698.

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*[https://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamps/ISHO002_s1 British Armorial Bindings].
*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D695149 Will of Sir Bartholomew Shower, The National Archives PROB 11/463/56].
*Middle Temple Library ''Liber benefactorum'', MS 137.
*Frankle, Robert J. [https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25471 "Shower, Sir Bartholomew (1658–1701), lawyer."] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
*Gambier Howe, E. R. J. ''Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum''. London, 1903.
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