Finch, Robert
Owner Id00012294
TypePerson
GenderMale
Biographical dates - Period of existence1783 - 1830
Other InformationMA, of Balliol College, Oxford; see DNB; Elizabeth Nitchie, The Reverend Colonel Finch (New York, 1940). Bequeathed books to the University which were transferred to the Bodleian from the Taylor Institution in 1921 (for a note about this see BQR 3,30 (1921), 129); see [George Parker], A Catalogue of the Books in the Finch Collection Oxford (Oxford, 1874); this contains shelfmarks which correspond to those written into the incunabula in blue ink on the front pastedown. He also bequeathed money to the University (the `Finch Fund'), the income from which is distributed equally between the Bodleian, Ashmolean, and Taylorian Libraries; the Bodleian portion is used for the purchase of Italian books printed before 1800.
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
Activity
Start (year)1814
End (year)1830
MARC Area Codee-it
Profession / Type of InstitutionScholar
CharacterisationReligious
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