West, James (1704?–1772)
Owner Id00014998
TypePerson
Biographical dates - Period of existence1704 - 1773
Other Informationsee DNB; de Ricci, English Collectors, ad indicem; Theodor Harmsen, Antiquarianism in the Augustan Age: Thomas Hearne 1678-1735 (Oxford, 2000), esp. 135-6; sale, Samuel Paterson, Bibliotheca Westiana, a Catalogue of the... Library of the Late James West [London: Langford, 29 Mar. 1773].
Treasurer of the Inner Temple, he was also a collector of prints, coins and antiquities (BL Clark's slips)
Other Identifierhttps://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id=
Activity
Start (year)1704
End (year)1773
NoteBMC V:
p. 240: C.19.e.14 (=IB.20448); p. 280: IB.20897.
Profession / Type of InstitutionCivil servant
CharacterisationNo characterisation/lay
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