Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
Book collectors -- Great Britain; British Museum
Burney, Charles, D.D., Notices of the Life, Labours, and Literary
Character of, with Notices of his Manuscript and Printed
Collections, 435–438; 440 _seqq._
Burney, Frances (afterwards Mme. d’Arblay), 475, 503
Burnouf, M., Researches on Assyrian Palæography of, 641
Bute, Earl of. _See_ Stuart
Byres, James, 372
Byron, George Gordon, Lord Byron, Autograph MSS. of, 458;
Notice of the recent slander on the fame of, _ib._
C.
Cadogan, Charles Sloane, 297
Cadogan, Lord, 300, 304
Cadyanda, Casts of Rock-Tombs at, 660
Cæsar Papers, 426
Calah (of _Genesis_) Conjectural identification of, 629
Calvert, Sir William, 299
Camden, William, Friendship of Sir Robert Cotton, and, 52, 53;
their joint labours on the _Britannia_, 54;
their archæological tour in the north of England, _ib._;
other joint labours and friendly intercourse, 87, 98
_Campi Phlegræi_, 350
Canino, Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of, and his Collection of Greek Vases,
35
Canning, Stratford, Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, encourages liberally
the researches of Layard, 632;
procures from Halicarnassus the primary specimens of the sculptures
of the Mausoleum and presents them to the Nation, 663
Canova, Anthony, Opinion on the Elgin Marbles of, 455
Caraffa, Carlo, MSS. of, 457
Carew, George, 261 _seqq._
Carleton, Dudley, Lord Dorchester, 65, 176
Carlisle, James, Earl of. _See_ Hay.
_Carmina Quadragesimalia_ of 1748, Oxford, 418
Carr, Robert, Earl of Somerset, Political connection between Sir Robert
Cotton and, 66 _seqq._;
Somerset’s intercourse with the Court of Spain, 69;
His alleged complicity in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, 31
_seqq._
Carr, Frances, Countess of Somerset, 66 _seqq._
Carteret, Lady Sophia, 424
Carthage, Explorations on the site of ancient, and their results, 666
_seqq._
Cary, Henry Francis, Notice of the Literary Life and Museum Service of,
532;
circumstances attendant on his Candidature for the Keepership of
Printed Books in 1837, 543 _seqq._
Casaubon, Isaac, 167
Casier, Margaret, 249
Casley, David, Services of, as Deputy Royal Librarian, 140, 144
Castile, Earls of, 56
Catharine, Empress of Russia, 407
_Catalogue of the Anglo-Gallic Coins_, 522
_Catalogue of the Printed Books_, 523, 533, 566 _seqq._
Cautley, Major, Fossils collected in the Himalayas, by, 39
Cavendish, Mary, Duchess of Portland, 462
Caxton, William, Series of the productions of the press of, 476–478,
681–683
Cecil, William, Lord Burghley, 427
Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury, 88, 162
Chaloner, Sir Thomas, 158, 159
Chamberlain, John, 176
Charles I, King of England, 68, 91, 94, 98, 101, 124, 331
Charles II, King of England, 260
Charles X, King of France, 691
Charlett, Arthur, 236, 283
Chelsea, Botanic Garden at, 275, 293, 297
Chelsea, Manor House of, and its History, 294 _seqq._
Children, John George, 532
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