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

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