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Oldys, William

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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Bibliographer, was a man of dissolute life, the illegitimate son of a chancellor of Lincoln; he was librarian to the Earl of Oxford for 10 years, and afterwards received the appointment of Norroy king-of-arms; besides many bibliographical and literary articles, he wrote a "Life of Raleigh" and "The Harleian Miscellany" (1696-1761).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Oldys, William'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​o/oldys-william.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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