Person Wanley; Humfrey (1672 - 1726) Wanley Humfrey 1672 - 1726 Male Coventry, Warwickshire, England 21 March 1672 Clarges Street, Hanover Square, London 06 July 1726 Burial: Within the altar-rails of Marylebone Church, London

Bedford Street (1718)

Antiquities Palaeography Education: Apprenticed to Mr Wright, a draper in Coventry (1687-1694); St Edmund Hall, Oxford (matriculated 1695); transferred to University College (1696) Career: Compiled catalogues of the manuscripts in Coventry School and St Mary's church, Warwick; Assistant in the Bodleian Library (1696-1700); on behalf of George Hickes travelled through England in search of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts (1699-1700); appointed Deputy Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) through the influence of Robert Nelson FRS (1680) (1700-1702); Secretary, SPCK (1702-1708); Librarian to Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford (FRS 1712) (1708) and to his son, Edward, 2nd Earl of Oxford (FRS 1727) (1711); employed by the Royal Society; died of dropsy; his collection of bibles and prayer books was bought by St Paul's Cathedral Memberships: FSA (1717) Son of Nathaniel Wanley, Rector of Trinity Church, Coventry, and his wife, Ellen, daughter of Humphrey Burton, Coroner and Town Clerk of Coventry. Married: 1) Anna, widow of Bernard Martin Berenclow and daughter of Thomas Bourchier of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; 2) Ann, who afterwards married William Lloyd of St James's, Westminster Fellow 20/11/1706 Sir Hans Sloane Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB; Thomas International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 21 Mar 1672 - 6 Jul 1726 NA5381 21/11/2001 Andyg Martind 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes b8ea6271-68ad-40c6-ab38-60c8a83ba29f