Timothy Halton 1632?-1704
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Timothy HALTON 1632?-1704
Biographical Note
Provost of Queen’s College, Oxford. Part-funded, and oversaw, the building of a new library for Queen’s in the 1690s; bequeathed 300 books in folio, and 200 in quarto, to the college. Remainder of library auctioned in Oxford, 13.2.1706 (no catalogue survives).
Sources
- Alston, R. C. Inventory of sale catalogues 1676-1800. St Philip, 2010.
- Hegarty, A. J. "Halton, Timothy (bap. 1633, d. 1704), college head." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.