Other InformationRevd William Grylls, alumnus of the Trinity College, bequeathed his collection of around 7000 volumes to Trinity College in 1863. He studied for the priesthood and after ordination was appointed curate and later vicar of Crowan, a Cornish benefice in the gift of St Aubyn, from whom he resigned in 1835. From that time onwards he was described as a ‘clergyman without cure’ and seems to have lived as a gentleman of private means funded by a testamentary bequest from his father and a second later bequest from his older brother Richard who predeceased him. It seems likely that his book collecting began in earnest at this time.
Other InformationRevd William Grylls, alumnus of the Trinity College, bequeathed his collection of around 7000 volumes to Trinity College in 1863. He studied for the priesthood and after ordination was appointed curate and later vicar of Crowan, a Cornish benefice in the gift of St Aubyn, from whom he resigned in 1835. From that time onwards he was described as a ‘clergyman without cure’ and seems to have lived as a gentleman of private means funded by a testamentary bequest from his father and a second later bequest from his older brother Richard who predeceased him. It seems likely that his book collecting began in earnest at this time.