Humfrey Wanley ( 1672 - 1726 )

Birth: Coventry, Warwickshire, England (21 March 1672) Death: Clarges Street, Hanover Square, London (06 July 1726) Burial: Within the altar-rails of Marylebone Church, London Research field: 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) Membership: Fellow Election Date: 20/11/1706 Proposers: Sir Hans Sloane.