Tanner

Tanner, THOMAS, was born at the vicarage of Market Lavington, Wiltshire, January 25, 1674, and after graduating from Queen's College, Oxford, was in 1696 elected a Fellow of All Souls. He had already a high reputation as an antiquary, and Wood at his death in 1695 left him the care of his papers. He took orders, and became in succession chaplain to his father-in-law, Bishop Moore of Norwich, chancellor of Norwich, prebendary of Ely, rector of Thorpe near Norwich, archdeacon of Norwich (1710), canon of Christ Church, Oxford (1723), and Bishop of St Asaph (1732). He was thrice married, and died at Oxford, 14th December 1735. An improved and enlarged edition of his Notitia Monastica (1695) appeared in folio under the care of his brother in 1744. But Bishop Tanner's fame rests hardly less securely on his great posthumous biographical and bibliographical work—the labour of forty years, the Bibliotheca Britannico-Hibernica (ed. by Dr D. Wilkins, 1748). His edition of Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses he had published in 2 vols. folio in 1721.