THOMAS HEARNE BIOGRAPHY
THOMAS HEARNE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
HEARNE, THOMAS (1678-1735). —Antiquary, born at White Waltham., Berkshire, and ed. at Oxf., where in 1712 he became second keeper of the Bodleian Library. A strong Jacobite, he was deprived of his post in 1716, and afterwards he refused, on political grounds, the chief librarianship. He pub. a large number of antiquarian works, including Reliquiæ Bodleianæ (1703), and ed. of Leland's Itinerary and Collectanea , Camden's Annals , and Fordun's Scotochronicon . Some of his own collections were pub. posthumously.