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HEARNE, THOMAS (1678-1735)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 128 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEARNE, See also:THOMAS (1678-1735) , See also:English See also:antiquary, was See also:born in See also:July 1678 at Littlefield See also:Green in the See also:parish of See also:White See also:Waltham, See also:Berkshire. Having received his See also:early See also:education from his See also:father, See also:George Hearne, the parish clerk, he showed such See also:taste for study that a wealthy See also:neighbour, See also:Francis See also:Cherry of Shottesbrooke (c. 1665–1713), a celebrated nonjuror, interested himself in the boy, and sent him to the school at See also:Bray " on purpose to learn the Latin See also:tongue." Soon Cherry took him into his own See also:house, and his education was continued at Bray until See also:Easter 1696, when he matriculated at St See also:Edmund See also:Hall, See also:Oxford. At the university he attracted the See also:attention of Dr See also:John See also:Mill (1645–1707), the See also:principal of St Edmund Hall, who employed him to compare See also:manuscripts and in other ways. Having taken the degree of B.A. in 1699 he was made assistant keeper of the Bodleian Library, where he worked on the See also:catalogue of books, and in 1712 he was appointed second keeper. In 1715 Hearne was elected architypographus and See also:esquire See also:bedell in See also:civil See also:law in the university, but objection having been made to his holding this See also:office together with that of second librarian, he resigned it in the same See also:year. As a nonjuror he refused to take the oaths of See also:allegiance to See also:King George I., and early in 1716 he was deprived of his librarianship. However he continued to reside in Oxford, and occupied himself in editing the English chroniclers. Having refused several important academical positions, including the librarianship of the Bodleian and the See also:Camden professorship of See also:ancient See also:history, rather than take the oaths, he died on the loth of See also:June 1735.

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