| AdminHistory | Born at Horningsheath, Suffolk, 1730; educated at St John's College Cambridge; graduated BA, 1752; elected a Fellow of Peterhouse, 1753; proceeded MA, 1754; appointed Professor of Modern History, 1771; created LLD by royal mandate, 1772; migrated to Trinity College; recorder at Bury St Edmund's; unmarried; died at Bury St Edmund's, 1807; buried at Pakenham. Publications: 'Remarks on an Essay on the History of Colonisation' (London, 1778); 'The Expediency of revising the Present Edition of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles' (Cambridge, 1789); 'The Expediency of revising the Epistles' (Cambridge, 1794); numerous articles in Young's 'Annals of Agriculture'. |
| CustodialHistory | Part of the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), linguistic psychologist, founder of the Orthological Institute and originator of the language system Basic English, whose interests in language systems are reflected in the subject matter of his collection, which comprised individual manuscripts and manuscript collections dating from the 14th to the 20th century. |