The Reverend Marmaduke Fothergill (1652 – 1731) was a Yorkshire clergyman, a scholar of Christian liturgy and collector of books.[1][2][3] His donated collection is held as the Fothergill Collection at York Minster Library.[4] It includes some titles which were previously in the library of John Price (Pricaeus).[5]

Fothergill grew up in York as the son of a dyer and attended St. Peter's School and St Mary Magdalene College, Cambridge. After serving as for some years as vicar of Skipwith, he resigned following the Glorious Revolution after feeling that he could not swear an oath of allegiance to William III, becoming one of what is called a nonjuror.[4] Living thereafter on his personal income, he then lived in Pontefract, married and had two children (one named for his father),[6] and donated money to fund education in the town, before according to one source being "driven from thence to seek a sanctuary in Westminster by a furious persecution raised against him by a hot-headed neighbouring Justice of the Peace."[7][1][2] He spent the rest of his life in Westminster, where he died. His will offered his library as first choice to his former parish of Skipwith, who turned it down due to lack of capability to establish a library.[8]

The History of the Worthies of England describes him as a "pious and learned but eccentric divine".[9][10][11]

References

  1. 1 2 John Nichols (1818). Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons; and Intended as a Sequel to The Literary Anecdotes. Nichols. pp. 373–4.
  2. 1 2 James Joseph Sheahan; T. Whellan (1857). History and Topography of the City of York, the East Riding of Yorkshire, and a Portion of the West Riding: Embracing a General Review of the Early History of Great Britain, and a General History and Description of the County of York. publishers. pp. 465-6.
  3. ↑ Frederic Ouvry (1874). Letters Addressed to Thomas Hearne, M.A., of Edmund Hall. Privately Printed. pp. 57–8.
  4. 1 2 James Raine (27 June 2013). A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of York. Cambridge University Press. p. 16. ISBN 978-1-108-05737-0.
  5. ↑ Stanley Boorman (1983). Studies in the Performance of Late Medieval Music. CUP Archive. pp. 188–191. ISBN 978-0-521-24819-8.
  6. ↑ Carpenter, David X. "James Torre's Collection of Yorkshire Monastic Charters" (PDF). Monastic Research Bulletin. University of York. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  7. ↑ George Fox (1827). The History of Pontefract, in Yorkshire. John Fox. pp. 339–344.
  8. ↑ O. S. Pickering; Susan Powell (1 August 2007). Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in Yorkshire Libraries and Archives. Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-84384-148-7.
  9. ↑ Thomas Fuller; P. Austin Nuttall (1840). The history of the worthies of England. T. Tegg. p. 471.
  10. ↑ John James (1841). The History and Topography of Bradford, (in the County of York,) with Topographical Notices of Its Parish. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 382–3.
  11. ↑ George Lawton; Andrew Coltee Ducarel (1842). Collectio Rerum Ecclesiasticarum de Diœcesi Eboracensi: Or, Collections Relative to Churches and Chapels Within the Diocese of York. To which are Added Collections Relative to Churches and Chapels Within the Diocese of Ripon. J. G. and F. Rivington. p. 149.
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