Thomas Bodley

Thomas Bodley

male, deceased (1613)
Member of the pre-1707 English Parliament, From Exeter, English, tudor, bodleianlibrary, diplomat
Sir Thomas Bodley (March 2, 1545 - January 28, 1613), was an English diplomat and scholar, founder of the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
Anthony Wood

Anthony Wood

male, deceased (1695)
trinity college, bodleianlibrary, christ church, English Civil War, violin, merton college…bodleian
Anthony Wood or Anthony à Wood was an English antiquary. He was the fourth son of Thomas Wood (1580-1643), B.C.L. of Oxford, where Anthony was b...
Thomas James

Thomas James

male, deceased (1629)
Bodley's Librarian, English, catalogue, winchester, manuscript, Forgery…library catalog, bodleianlibrary
Thomas James (c. 1573 - August, 1629) was an English librarian, first librarian of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. He was born at Newport, Isle of...
Thomas Hearne

Thomas Hearne

male, deceased (1735)
from White Waltham, St Edmund Hall, Oxford, antiquarian, bray, English, From berkshire…bodleianlibrary
Thomas Hearne (July, 1678 - June 10, 1735), English antiquarian, was born at Littlefield Green in the parish of White Waltham, Berkshire. Having...

Richard Rawlinson

male, deceased (1755)
Newton, Old Pauline, South Sea Company, Royal Society, Life, Old Paulines…bodleianlibrary
Richard Rawlinson (February 3, 1690 - April 6, 1755) was an English clergyman and antiquarian collector of books and manuscripts, which he...

Henry Ellis

male, deceased (1869)
Mercers' School, British Museum director, University of Oxford, bodleianlibrary, English, domesday book
Sir Henry Ellis (November 29, 1777 - January 15, 1869) was an English librarian. He was born in London and educated at the Mercers' School and...

Thomas Allen

male
Astrologer, English, University of Oxford, From Uttoxeter, Leicester's Commonwealth, Trinity College, Oxford…bodleianlibrary
Thomas Allen (or Alleyn) (Uttoxeter,Staffordshire, 21 December1542-30 September1632) was an English mathematician and astrologer. He was admitted...
Thomas Hyde

Thomas Hyde

male, deceased (1703)
Brian Walton, Christian Hebraist, librarian, Bodley's Librarian, Bridgnorth, Laudian professorship of Arabic…bodleianlibrary
Thomas Hyde was an English orientalist. The first use of the word "dualism" is attributed to him, in 1700. He was born at Billingsley, near...

Frederic Madden

male, deceased (1873)
German, French, Philologist, shakespeare, orthography, British Museum…bodleianlibrary
Sir Frederic Madden (February 16, 1801 - March 8, 1873), was an English palaeographer. The son of an officer of Irish extraction, he was born at...
Venetia Phair

Venetia Phair

female, 90 years old
Oxford University, natural satellite, Oxford, England, Lowell Observatory, Deimos, dwarf planet…bodleianlibrary
Venetia Phair (née Burney was the first person to suggest the name Pluto for the planet discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh in 1930. At the time, she w...