Maittaire, Michael, 1668-1747

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Maittaire, Michael, 1668-1747

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1668-1747

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MAITTAIRE, MICHAEL, son of Michel Maittaire, Rouen, Normandy, France; b. 29 Nov 1668; his parents settled in England after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes; adm.; KS 1682; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Oct 1688, aged 18, Canoneer Student 7 Jul 1693 – void 1706; BA 1694; MA 23 Mar 1696/7 (incorp. Cambridge 1708); Under Master of the School 1695-9; kept a private boarding school at Mile End; a non-juror (Hearne, Collections iii, 320), declining to take orders in Church of England; librarian to Sir Richard Ellys, Bart.; tutor to Philip Stanhope (adm. 1743, qv), the illegitimate son of Lord Chesterfield; a classical scholar and historian of typography; the sale of his library occupied 44 evenings; edited classical texts; author, Annales Typographiae, 1719-41, and other works; d. 7 Sep 1747. DNB.

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GB-2014-WSA-00965

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GB 2014

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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition

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Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020

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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.

The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.

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