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Sir Joseph WILLIAMSON 1633-1701
Biographical Note
Diplomat, Secretary of State, Keeper of the Royal Library.
Books
Bequeathed his library (ca.6000 volumes) to Queen’s College, Oxford, where many of the books, and manuscript inventories, survive.
Sources
- British Armorial Bindings.
- Birrell, T. Reading as pastime: the place of light literature in some 17th-century gentlemen’s libraries, in R. Myers (ed), Property of a gentleman, Winchester, 1991, 113-131, p.126-7.
- Marshall, Alan. "Williamson, Sir Joseph (1633–1701), government official." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.