---
_id: 4189
data:
  activity:
    - areaCode: e-uk-en
      characterisation: ari
      end: 1831
      geonamesId: 2636340
      place: Syston (near Grantham)
      professionOrType: scl
      start: 1815
  biographicalInformation: '1773 - 1831'
  externalId:
    - http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01162605
    - http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/provenance/record/3627
  gender: 1002
  name: 'Thorold, Sir John Hayford'
  note: "10th Baronet; the collection at Syston Park, Lincolnshire, was begun by Sir John Thorold (1734-1815), the 9th Bt, who mainly collected Elzeviers; the 10th Bt collected incunabula; see ‘Contributions Towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors’, part II, Sept. 1892, by Michael Kerney, pp. 2-3; Fletcher, ‘Collectors’, 233-5; de Ricci, ‘English Collectors’, 159-60, with illustration of book-plate, pl. viii; ‘Complete Baronetage’, ed. G. E. C., II (Exeter, 1902), 193; on the library see also Tim Knox, `Sir John Thorold's Library at Syston Park, Lincolnshire: Bronzes for a Bibliomaniac', ‘Apollo’, 146 no. 427 (1997), 24-31; Roy Strong and others, ‘The Destruction of the Country House 1875-1975’ (London, 1974), pls 120, 284; ‘The Wardington Library: Incunabula and the Wardington Hours’ (London: Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 2006), pp. 9-10, with Syston Park book-plate illustrated on p. 17, lot 2; sale (London: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 12-20 Dec. 1884, 3 July 1899)."
  type: per
meta:
  history:
    - timestamp: 2014-11-19T12:00:00Z
    - timestamp: 2016-01-04T16:08:55
    - timestamp: 2016-01-04T16:09:55
    - timestamp: 2016-04-13T16:20:07
    - timestamp: 2017-03-14T19:37:41
    - timestamp: 2017-12-03T16:31:15
    - timestamp: 2017-12-03T16:31:50
    - timestamp: 2018-03-25T10:03:24
    - timestamp: 2023-05-02T10:18:10