Mark Masterman-Sykes
Sir Mark Masterman-Sykes, 3rd Baronet (20 August 1771 – 16 February 1823), born Mark Sykes, was an English landowner and politician, known as a book-collector.
Life
He was eldest son of
On 14 May 1807 Sykes was returned Member of Parliament for the
Collector
Sykes was famous as a bibliophile, and possessed a major private library, rich in
Sykes was a member of the Roxburghe Club, to which he presented a reprint of some of John Lydgate's poems in 1818. He also collected pictures, bronzes, coins, medals, and prints (with a complete set of Francesco Bartolozzi's engravings, comprising his proofs and etchings). All his collections were dispersed by sale in 1824. His library fetched nearly £10,000, and his pictures nearly £6,000.[2]
Family
Sykes was twice married: firstly, on 11 November 1795, to Henrietta, daughter and heiress of Henry Masterman of Settrington, Yorkshire, on which occasion he took the additional name of Masterman; she died in July 1813. On 2 August 1814 he married, secondly, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of William Tatton Egerton and sister of Wilbraham Tatton Egerton of Tatton Park; she survived him, dying in October 1846.[2]
Notes
- ^ "High Sheriffs". London Gazette. Retrieved 14 February 2021.
- ^ a b c d e Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Sykes, Mark Masterman". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 55. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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