Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Dates, Money, Welsh Place Names and Publications
- Prologue
- 1 Dr Williams and His Will
- 2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721–31: Faith, Fitness, and Diligence
- 3 Constructing the Library Building 1725–30: A Proper Plan
- 4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731–47: Piety and Charity
- 5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748–62: Liberty and Liberal Dissent
- 6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762–95: A Very Respectable Body
- 7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795–1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850–7: Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light
- 8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857–93: The Scrupulous Observer
- 9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886–1914: Introducing Order
- 10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914–25: Application and Imagination
- 11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925–46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925–44: A New Age with Old Strains
- 12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944–66 and Librarian 1946–66: Trusted Innovator
- 13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966–76: Modest Dependability
- 14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977–98: Mixed Blessings
- 15 David Wykes, Director 1998–2021: Past, Present, and Future
- 16 Dr Williams’s Trust: An Assessment
- Appendix 1 Trustees in 1723
- Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions)
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Dates, Money, Welsh Place Names and Publications
- Prologue
- 1 Dr Williams and His Will
- 2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721–31: Faith, Fitness, and Diligence
- 3 Constructing the Library Building 1725–30: A Proper Plan
- 4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731–47: Piety and Charity
- 5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748–62: Liberty and Liberal Dissent
- 6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762–95: A Very Respectable Body
- 7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795–1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850–7: Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light
- 8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857–93: The Scrupulous Observer
- 9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886–1914: Introducing Order
- 10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914–25: Application and Imagination
- 11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925–46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925–44: A New Age with Old Strains
- 12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944–66 and Librarian 1946–66: Trusted Innovator
- 13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966–76: Modest Dependability
- 14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977–98: Mixed Blessings
- 15 David Wykes, Director 1998–2021: Past, Present, and Future
- 16 Dr Williams’s Trust: An Assessment
- Appendix 1 Trustees in 1723
- Appendix 2 Lists from Short Account (with later additions)
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Dr Williams's Trust and Library , pp. 311 - 335Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2022