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THOMAS JAMES (c. 1573–1629)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 144 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS JAMES (c. 1573–1629)  ,
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English librarian, was born at
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Newport, Isle of Wight . He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, and became a
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fellow of New College in 1593 . His wide knowledge of books, together with his skill in deciphering
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manuscripts and detecting
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literary forgeries, secured him in 1602 the
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post of librarian to the library founded in that
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year by
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Sir Thomas Bodley at Oxford . At the same time he was made rector of St Aldate's, Oxford . In 16o5 he compiled a classified catalogue of the books in the Bodleian Library, but in 162o substituted for it an alphabetical catalogue . The arrangement in redo, whereby the Stationers'
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Company undertook to supply the Bodleian Library with every
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book published, was James's
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suggestion .
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Ill
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health compelled him to resign his post in 162o, and he died at Oxford in August 1629 .

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