Details of provenance, owner, donor or other name
Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord (1612-1671);
Cromwellian commander in the civil wars; set a strong guard around the Bodleian after the royalists' surrender of Oxford; bequeathed his collection of manuscript and printed books, many of them left to him by Roger Dodsworth, to the Bodleian Library upon his death; see DNB; Philip 57.
♦ Categorisation: Type: Person. Gender: Unknown. Dates: 1612 to 1671. Period: 17th century.
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