OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
An Oxford Bibliographical Society lecture.
Thomas Tyrwhitt (1730-1786) was educated at Eton and The Queen’s College, Oxford. He was a Fellow of Merton from 1755 to 1762. He held several subsequent posts in London, notably curator of the British Museum (appointed in 1784). He was a philologist and scholar of ancient and English literature. His edition of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1775) brought rigorous scholarly editing to this major text. On his death Tyrwhitt left a collection of some 900 rare books to the British Museum.