{"id":109623,"date":"2017-12-09T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:51","slug":"thomas-bodley-knighted-1604-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/thomas-bodley-knighted-1604-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Bodley knighted, 1604"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SAiHgn7b2UI\/AAAAAAAAAfc\/3Qx9sKkuATM\/s1600-h\/thomas-bodley-1-sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"156\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5190547565088332098\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/thomas-bodley-1-sized.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109624\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;\" \/><\/a>The  Bodleian Library at Oxford University is one of the most famous in the  world. It was named after an ex-diplomat and fellow of Merton College,  Thomas Bodley. Bodley used the wealth he had acquired by marrying the  widow of a pilchard magnate to save the library. The University used his  money to house the existing collection of books and around 2,500 new  texts donated by Bodley and others. The library opened its doors to the  public in November 1602, four years after the University accepted  Bodley&#8217;s largess.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, on 18th April, 1604, King  James I of England (James VI of Scotland) knighted Bodley. That same  year the King, who was already a patron of the Library, granted the  Bodleian an endowment of lands. When he died in 1613 the library also  received a large part of Sir Thomas&#8217; fortune which, in part, has enabled  it to survive until the present day.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Sir Thomas Bodley&#8217;s life see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nndb.com\/people\/859\/000094577\/\">biography at the NNDB web-site<\/a>; for more details of the Bodleian visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ouls.ox.ac.uk\/bodley\/about\/history\">History page<\/a> on the Library&#8217;s web-site.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is one of the most famous in the world. It was named after an ex-diplomat and fellow of Merton College, Thomas Bodley. Bodley used the wealth he had acquired by marrying the widow of a pilchard magnate to save the library. The University used his money to house the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}