John Bagford
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John Bagford (1650/51, Fetter Lane, London - 5 May 1716, Islington) was a British antiquarian, writer, bibliographer, ballad-collector and bookseller. Originally a shoemaker by trade, he was active on the book-trading market from 1680 in and around Holborn, travelling to Haarlem, Leiden, and Amsterdam on this business and aiding such collectors as John Moore, Robert and Edward Harley, Sir Hans Sloane, Samuel Pepys and John Woodward. Becoming friends with fellow antiquarians such as Thomas Hearne, Humfrey Wanley and Thomas Baker, he published antiquarian tracts, contributed to others, and edited an edition of Geoffrey Chaucer published by John Urry.
Bagford, together with Humfrey Wanley and John Talman, was one of three ‘founder members of the reconstituted ‘Society of Antiquaries’, which first met at the Bear Tavern on the Strand on December 5, 1707.[1]
[edit] External links
- John Bagford in the Dictionary of National Biography (requires subscription)
- Portraits of Bagford at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- Article on Bagford (giving an erroneous birth year)
