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
Howard, Henry, Earl of Northampton, 64, 66, 81, 113
Howard, Margaret, 132
Howard, Lady Philippa, 370
Howard, Philip, Earl of Arundel and Surrey, 163, 174
Howard, Thomas, Earl of Arundel, Surrey, and Norfolk, Correspondence
with Sir R. Cotton of, 87;
his early life and his career at Court, 174 _seqq._;
beginnings of his extensive Collections in literature, art, and
archæology, 177;
his quarrel with Lord Spencer, _ib._;
the adventure of his wife at Venice and its consequences, 179;
his imprisonment by Charles I, 183 _seqq._;
his efforts in Colonization, 186;
his withdrawal from England, and death, 188;
character and history of the Arundelian Collections, 189 _seqq._
Howard, Henry, Duke of Norfolk, 197, 199
Howell, James, 52, 94, 101
Hubert, Robert, 259
Hugessen, Dorothea, 503
Hugessen, William Weston, 503
Hull, John Fowler, 460
Humboldt, William von, 455, 501
Huntington, Robert, Bishop of Raphoe, 609
Hutchinson, General Lord, 362, 367
Hutton, William, 340
Hyde, Edward, Earl of Clarendon, 265
Hyde, Lawrence, Earl of Rochester, 572
I.
Icelandic Books, 497
Ignatius, St., Nitrian MSS. of the Epistles of, 609 _seqq._
Inglis, Sir Robert Harry, 542
Institute of Egypt, 362 _seqq._
Institute of France, 505
Irish Manuscripts, Collections of, 456, 457
Italian Topography, Collection of, 460
J.
Jackson, Cyril, 422
Jacquier, M., 509
James I, King of England, &c., 49, 65, 69, 73, 85, 86, 87, 103, 111,
131, 154
James Stuart, Prince of Wales (called ‘The Old Pretender’), 221
_seqq._, 244, 245
James, Richard, 114 _seqq._
Japanese Books, 718 _seqq._
Jenkins, Thomas, 372, 376, 377
Jenkinson, Robert Banks, Earl of Liverpool, 483
Johnson, Samuel, 242, 469, 470, 471, 473, 475
Jolles, Sir John, 59
Jones, John Winter, 568, 575, 600
Jones, Inigo, 163
Jonson, Benjamin, 116
_Journal Britannique_, 343
Joursanvault, Baron de, 536 _seqq._
Junius, Francis, 199
Jussieu, Bernard de, 289
K.
Kaye, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 441
Kennet, White, Bishop of Peterborough, 427
Khorsabad and Kouyunjik, Discoveries at, 629 _seqq._
King, Dr. William, 286
Knatchbull, Sir Edward, 507
Knight, Gowin, 321, 342
Knight, Richard Payne, Notices of the Public and Literary Life, the
Collections, the Writings, and the Benefactions of, 401–412, 460;
his opinions and his Parliamentary Evidence on the Elgin Marbles,
389, 411 _seqq._
Knightley, Sir Richard, 254
Kokscharow Minerals, 42
König, Charles, 532, 575
L.
La Billardière, M. de, Botanical and other Collections of, 500
Lambarde, William, 52
Lambe, Dr., 87
Lansdowne Manuscripts, 526 _seqq._
Lansdowne, William, Marquess of. _See_ PETTY-FITZMAURICE
Lartet, M., 699 _seqq._
La Turbie Gems, 691
Laud, Archbishop, 151
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