Record ID:
51890880 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • nr 90007330
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Birth:
  • 18361204
Death:
  • 19040312
Notes:
  • His The archpriest controversy, 1896-1898 t.p. (Thomas Graves Law)
  • NUC pre-56 (Law, Thomas Graves, 1836-1904)
  • Wikipedia 19 Aug. 2013 (Thomas Graves Law (1836-1904) was an English Oratorian priest, and later in life a historian and bibliographer. He was born on 4 December 1836 at Yeovilton in Somerset; in 1855 he entered the Oratory and was ordained priest in 1860, remaining until 1878 when he left the Catholic Church. In 1879 Law was appointed keeper of the Signet Library in Edinburgh, and there he passed the remainder of his life. He was one of the founders, in 1886, of the Scottish History Society, and acted as its honorary secretary. In 1898 the University of Edinburgh made him hon. LL.D. After a long illness he died at his home at Duddingston, near Edinburgh, on 12 March 1904)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)144196
Cataloguing source:
  • NjP NjP VJTL