RICHARD

See also:

• COPLEY, JOHN SINGLETON (1737—1815)

COPLEY

See also:

• RICHARD COPLEY CHRISTIE (183o–Igor)

CHRISTIE (183o–Igor)  , English scholar and bibliophile, was born on the 22nd of July 183o at Lenton in Nottinghamshire, the son of a millowner . He was educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, and was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1857, and in 1872 became chancellor of the diocese of Manchester . This he resigned in 1893 . He held numerous appointments, notably the professorships of history (from 1854 to 1856) and of political economy (from 1855 to 1866) at Owens College, Manchester . He always took an active interest in this college, of which he was one of the governors; in 1893 he gave the Christie library building designed by Alfred Waterhouse, and in 1897 he devoted £50,000 of the funds at his disposal as a trustee of Sir Joseph Whitworth's estate for the building of Whitworth Hall, which completed the front quadrangle of the college . He was an enthusiastic book collector, and bequeathed to Owens College his library of about 75,000 volumes, rich in a very complete set of the books printed by Dolet, a wonderful series of Aldines, and of volumes printed by Sebastian Gryphius . His Etienne Dolet, the Martyr of the Renaissance (188o), is the most exhaustive work on the subject . He died at Ribsden on the 9th of January 1901 .