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_id: 2686
data:
  activity:
    - areaCode: e-uk
      characterisation: noc
      end: 1774
      geonamesId: 2643743
      place: London
      professionOrType: phy
      start: 1722
      timespanNote: |-
        BMC IV:
        p. 13: IB.17166;
        BMC V:
        p. 164: IB.19587; p. 169: IB.19623a; p. 172: IB.19655, IC.19665; p. 184: IB.19763; p. 235: IB.20355;
        BMC VI:
        p. 606: IB.25635; p. 607: IB.25638; p. 667: IA.28013a; p. 668: IA.28035; p. 690: IB.28061b; p. 754: IB.26552a;
        BMC VII: 
        p. 942: IB.30291; p. 1091: IA.34063.
  biographicalInformation: 1722-1774
  externalId:
    - http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp00477394
    - 'https://aeolus.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/incunables/provenances_for_mei.xml#xpointer(//*[@id='
  gender: 1002
  name: 'Askew, Anthony'
  note: |-
    Born in Kendal. A learned collector of manuscripts and books which he made available to students. His Greeks inscriptions are now in the British Museum [BL Clark's slips].
    Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MD 1750, physician and classical scholar; see DNB; Venn pt 1, I 48; Fletcher, Collectors, 219-21; de Ricci, English Collectors, 52-3, gives the date of sale as 13 Feb.; sale: Bibliotheca Askeviana (London: S. Baker and G. Leigh, 13 Feb. 1775). [Bod-inc Index of provenances].
  type: per
  variants:
    - 'Askew, Antonius'
    - 'Askew, Antony'
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-11-19T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2016-07-27T20:48:27
    - timestamp: 2016-08-31T15:03:09
    - timestamp: 2016-08-31T15:04:11
    - timestamp: 2016-08-31T15:15:52
    - timestamp: 2017-09-25T14:40:02