For the American politician see Benjamin T. Bartlett IV
Benjamin Bartlett (1714–1787), was an English
topographical
writer.
Life
Bartlett was of an old-established quaker family at
numismatology was most extensive, and we are told that it would have been difficult to find his equal on this subject. In 1764 he was elected a fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries, and at the time of his death was their treasurer.
His only literary venture was a memoir on the Episcopal Coins of Durham, and the Monastic Coins of Reading, minted during the reigns of III, appropriated to their respective owners, this having been the substance of a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries on 5 March 1778. He had, however, prepared for publication
Manduessedum Romanorum, or
The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Manceter' afterwards printed in
Nichols's
Topographical Antiquities. He also received the public thanks of
Dr. Nash for the valuable communications he contributed to the
History of Worcestershire, and
Gough
He died of
dropsy
on 2 March 1787, at the age of 73, and was interred in the quakers' burying-ground at Hartshill, Warwickshire.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bartlett, Benjamin". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1885). "Bartlett, Benjamin". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
