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THOMAS TANNER (1674-1735)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 399 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS See also:TANNER (1674-1735)  , See also:English See also:antiquary and pre-See also:late, was See also:born at See also:Market Lavington in See also:Wiltshire on the 25th of See also:January 1674, and was educated at See also:Queen's See also:College, See also:Oxford, taking See also:holy orders in 1694 . Next See also:year he became See also:chaplain and then See also:fellow of All Souls College, and a few years later private chaplain to See also:John See also:Moore (1646-1714), See also:bishop of See also:Norwich and afterwards of See also:Ely, who appointed him See also:chancellor of the See also:diocese of Norwich . In 1706 he became See also:rector of See also:Thorpe, near Norwich, in 1713 a See also:canon of Ely, in 1724 a canon of See also:Christ See also:Church, Oxford, and in 1732 bishop of St See also:Asaph . He died in Oxford, where he had passed most of his See also:life, on the 14th of See also:December 1735• See also:Tanner's See also:chief See also:work is his Notitia Monastica, a See also:short See also:account of all the religious houses in See also:England and See also:Wales . This was published at Oxford in 1695; it was reprinted with additions by the author's See also:brother, John Tanner, in 1744; and was reprinted again with further additions by See also:James Nasmith (1740-1808) in 1787 . He also wrote Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica, a See also:dictionary of all the authors who flourished in England, See also:Scotland and See also:Ireland before the opening of the 17th See also:century, at which he laboured for See also:forty years . This was not published until 1748, thirteen years after the author's See also:death . The bishop collected materials for a See also:history of Wiltshire and worked for some See also:time on a new edition of the See also:works of John See also:Leland . His valuable collection of books and See also:manuscripts is in the Bodleian library at Oxford . Another writer of this name was See also:THOMAS TANNER (1630-1682), the author of The Entrance of Mazzarini (Oxford, 1657-58) . Educated at St See also:Paul's School, See also:London, and at See also:Pembroke See also:Hall, See also:Cambridge, he became a See also:barrister and later a clergyman, being See also:vicar of Colyton, See also:Devon, and afterwards of Winchfield, Hants .

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