Thomas Thynne 1640-1714

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Thomas THYNNE, Viscount Weymouth 1640-1714

Biographical Note

Politician and landowner, of Longleat, Wiltshire.

Books

Used an engraved armorial bookplate dated 1704, as did his son Henry who predeceased him (1675-1708).

Sources

  • Collins, J. A short account of the library at Longleat House, Sothebys, 1980.
  • Hoare, P. (gen.ed.), The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006. I 501.
  • Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903. 29448/*217.
  • Lancaster, Henry. "Thynne, Thomas, first Viscount Weymouth (bap. 1640, d. 1714), politician." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.