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
Appendix 2 - Lists from Short Account (with later additions)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- 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
Summary
Trustees
1. Revd William Lorimer, MA, 1715–22.
2. Revd Joshua Oldfield, DD, 1715–29.
3. Revd Edmund Calamy, DD, 1715–32.
4. Revd William Tong, 1715–27.
5. Revd Matthew Henry died, 1714.
6. Revd Benjamin Robinson, 1715–24.
7. Revd Zachary Merrell, 1715–32.
8. Revd John Evans, DD, 1715–30.
9. Revd William Harris, DD, 1715–40.
10. Revd Thomas Reynolds, 1715–27.
11. Revd Isaac Bates, MA, 1715–58.
12. Revd Jeremy Smith, 1715–23.
13. Revd James Read, 1715–55.
14. John Morton, 1715–46.
15. Edmund Farrington, 1715–23.
16. William Adee, 1715–23.
17. Jonathan Collyer, 1715–23.
18. Benjamin Sheppard, 1715–31.
19. Francis Barkstead, jun., 1715–47.
20. Joseph Archer, 1715–56.
21. Richard Watts, 1715–24.
22. Isaac Honeywood, 1715–23.
23. Revd George Smyth, 1715–46.
24. Sir John Fryer, Bart., 1723–6.
25. Joseph Williams, 1723–52.
26. Revd Jabez Earle, DD, 1723–68.
27. Revd Benjamin Grosvenor, DD, 1723–58.
28. Revd Joshua Bayes, 1724 – declined to serve.
29. John Welch, 1724–51.
30. Revd Daniel Mayo MA, 1724–33.
31. Samuel Lessingham, 1724–61.
32. Samuel Mayo, 1724–8.
33. Revd Samuel Wright, DD, 1724–46.
34. Revd John Barker, 1725–62.
35. Revd John Newman, 1728–41.
36. Thomas Hollis, 1728–31.
37. Benjamin Avery, DCL, 1728–64.
38. Revd Obadiah Hughes, DD, 1729–51.
39. Revd Jeremiah Hunt, DD, 1730–44.
40. Revd Thomas Leavesley, 1730–9.
41. John Hollis, 1731–5.
42. Antonio Walburgh, 1731–49.
43. Revd John Allen, MD, 1732–59.
44. Revd John Munkley, 1733–8.
45. James Ruck, 1735–8.
46. Revd Moses Lowman, 1738–52.
47. William Mount, 1739–68.
48. Revd Samuel Lawrence, DD, 1739–60.
49. Revd Edmund Calamy, 1740–55.
50. Revd Henry Read, 1744–74.
51. Revd Samuel Chandler, DD, FRS, FSA, 1744–66.
52. Josiah Chitty 1746–50.
53. Revd Thomas Newman, 1746–58.
54. Revd Edward Godwin, 1746–64.
55. Philip Hollingworth, 1747–61.
56. Thomas West, 1749–56.
57. Joseph Andrews, 1750–3.
58. James Lambe, 1751–61.
59. Nathaniel Neal, 1751–66.
60. Revd William May, 1752–5.
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