Thomas Kerrich
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Thomas Kerrich (1748–1828) was a clergyman, principal Cambridge University librarian (Protobibliothecarius), antiquary, draftsman and gifted amateur artist. He created one of the first catalogue raisonnés (for the works of artist Marten van Heemskerck).
Thomas Kerrich was a freemason and was holder of an M.A, and was a Fellow of Magdalen College and a Fellow of the Royal Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
He collected ancient Roman coins. In he published papers on architecture, sepulchres and coffins.
In 1816, the Leper Chapel in Cambridge was bought and restored by Kerrich. Kerrich gave the chapel to the University, who in turn gave it the Cambridge Preservation Society in 1951. Many art galleries have works by Kerrich in their collections.
His younger daughter, Miss Francis M. Kerrich, was married in 9 December 1828 to the Reverend Charles Henry Hartshorne (1802–1865). Unfortunately, Thomas Kerrich had passed on by this time. His son was the Rev. Richard Edward Kerrich (1801–1872).
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- The Anatomy of the Body of God Being The Supreme Revelation of Cosmic Consciousness, Frater Achad (Charles Stansfield Jones), published circa 1923
- Description of Barnwell Leper Chapel, including a watercolor by Richard Relhan
- Observations upon some sepulchral monuments in Italy and France, T. Kerrich, Archaeologia 18 (1817) pp.186–196
- Observations on the use of the mysterious figure, called Vesica Piscis, in the Architecture of the Middle Ages, and in Gothic Architecture, T. Kerrich, Archaeologia 19 (1821) pp.353–368
