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1 online resource (357 pages) |
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Dates, Money, Welsh Place Names and Publications -- Prologue -- 1 Dr Williams and His Will -- 2 Benjamin Sheppard, Receiver 1721-31: Faith, Fitness, and Diligence -- 3 Constructing the Library Building 1725-30: A Proper Plan -- 4 Francis Barkstead, Receiver 1731-47: Piety and Charity -- 5 John Cooper, Receiver 1748-62: Liberty and Liberal Dissent -- 6 Richard Jupp junior, Receiver 1762-95: A Very Respectable Body |
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7 Richard Webb Jupp, Receiver 1795-1850, and David Davison, Receiver 1850-7: Fashionable Sympathies Amid Increasing Light -- 8 Walter D. Jeremy, Receiver 1857-93: The Scrupulous Observer -- 9 Francis H. Jones, Secretary and Librarian 1886-1914: Introducing Order -- 10 Robert Travers Herford, Secretary and Librarian 1914-25: Application and Imagination -- 11 Stephen Kay Jones, Librarian 1925-46, and Joseph Worthington, Secretary 1925-44: A New Age with Old Strains -- 12 Roger Thomas, Secretary 1944-66 and Librarian 1946-66: Trusted Innovator |
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13 Kenneth Twinn, Secretary and Librarian 1966-76: Modest Dependability -- 14 John Creasey, Librarian, and James McClelland, Secretary, 1977-98: Mixed Blessings -- 15 David Wykes, Director 1998-2021: Past, Present, and Future -- 16 Dr Williams's Trust: An Assessment -- Appendix 1: Trustees in 1723 -- Appendix 2: Lists from Short Account (with later additions) -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
This first complete history of Dr Williams's Trust and Library, deriving from the will of the nonconformist minister Daniel Williams (c.1643-1716) reveals rare examples of private philanthropy and dissenting enterprise |
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Dr. Williams's Library.
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Dr. Williams's Trust.
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Dr. Williams's Library fast |
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Dissenters -- England
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Church and state -- Great Britain
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Church and state
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Dissenters
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England
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781800105546 |
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1800105541 |
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9781800105539 |
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1800105533 |
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